Cross Currents Family Law Policy in the United States and England,9780198268208

Cross Currents Family Law Policy in the United States and England

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ISBN13: 9780198268208
ISBN10: 0198268203
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-03-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This volume brings together essays on a range of issues in family law in the United States and England. It provides an unparalleled opportunity to examine how family law has reacted to a period of unprecedented change in family life. The legal analyses are set within critical accounts of wider social and family policy and against a fully explored demographic background.

Author Biography


Katz is Professor of Law at Boston College School of Law Eekelaar is Reader in Law and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford MacLean is Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
xi
A. Background to the Twentieth Century
How to Give the Present a Past? Family Law in the United States 1950-2000
1(30)
Michael Grossberg
Changing Family Patterns in England and Wales over the Last Fifty Years
31(26)
Colin Gibson
A Century of the American Family
57(24)
Donna Ruane Morrison
Family Policy in the Post-War Period
81(20)
Jane Lewis
The Evolution of Family Policy in the United States after World War II
101(22)
Barry L. Friedman
Martin Rein
English Family Law since World War II: From Status to Chaos
123(20)
John Dewar
Stephen Parker
B. Establishing the Family
The Shadowlands: The Regulation of Human Reproduction in the United States
143(22)
George J. Annas
The Legal Regulation of Infertility Treatment in Britain
165(22)
Ruth Deech
Parenthood in the United States
187(24)
Ruth-Arlene W. Howe
Marriage, Cohabitation, and Parenthood--from Contract to Status?
211(24)
Gillian Douglas
Marriage: An Institution in Transition and Redefinition
235(22)
Walter J. Wadlington
The Constitutionalization of American Family Law: The Case of the Right to Marry
257(22)
Jerome A. Barron
Dual Systems of Adoption in the United States
279(28)
Sanford N. Katz
English Adoption Law: Past, Present, and Future
307(34)
Nigel Lowe
C. Regulating and Reorganizing the Family
Divorce in the United States
341(22)
Ira Mark Ellman
Divorce in England 1950-2000: A Moral Tale?
363(24)
Carol Smart
The Financial Incidents of Family Dissolution
387(18)
Grace Ganz Blumberg
Post-divorce Financial Obligations
405(18)
John Eekelaar
The Status of Children: A Story of Emerging Rights
423(18)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Disputing Children
441(30)
Michael Freeman
The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at Century's End: The US Experience
471(24)
Elizabeth M. Schneider
Violence Against Women in the Family
495(18)
Rebecca Dobash
Russell Dobash
D. The Family and Governmental Agencies
A Forum for Every Fuss: The Growth of Court Services and ADR Treatments for Family Law Cases in the United States
513(20)
Jessica Pearson
Access to Justice in Family Matters in Post-War Britain
533(14)
Mavis Maclean
Child Welfare Policy and Practice in the United States 1950-2000
547(18)
Martin Guggenheim
From Curtis to Waterhouse: State Care and Child Protection in the UK 1945-2000
565(24)
Judith Masson
The Hague Children's Conventions: The Internationalization of Child Law
589(30)
Linda Silberman
E. Epilogues
Individual Rights and Family Relationships
619(18)
Sanford N. Katz
The End of an Era?
637(22)
John Eekelaar
Index 659

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