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Cross currents : family law and policy in the United States and England /

This contribution to comparative family law brings together essays on a range of issues in family law as it applies in the United States and England. The authors consider how both countries stand at the beginning of the 21st century.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Katz, Sanford N., 1933-, Eekelaar, John, Maclean, Mavis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Domestic relations > United States.
Family policy > United States.
Domestic relations > Great Britain.
Family policy > Great Britain.
Politique familiale > États-Unis.
Politique familiale > Grande-Bretagne.
Domestic relations
Family policy
Great Britain
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A. Background to the Twentieth Century
  • 1. How to Give the Present a Past: Family Law in the United States: 1950-2000 / Michael Grossberg
  • 2. Changing Family Patterns in England and wales Over the Past Fifty Years / Colin Gibson
  • 3. Century of the American Family / Donna Duane Morrison
  • 4. Family Policy in the Post-War Period / Jane Lewis
  • 5. The Evolution of Family Policy in the United States after the Second World War / Barry L. Friedman and Martin Rein
  • 6. English Family Law Since The Second World War / John Dewar
  • B. Establishing the Family
  • 7. The Shadowlands: The Regulation of Human Reproduction in the United States / George J. Annas
  • 8. The Legal Regulation of Infertility Treatment in Britain / Ruth Deech
  • 9. Parenthood in the United States / Ruth-Arlene W. Howe
  • 10. Marriage, Cohabitation, and Parenthood: From Contract to Status? / Gillian Douglas
  • 11. Marriage: An Institution in Transition and Redefinition / Walter J. Wadlington, Jr.
  • 12. The Constitutionalization of American Family Law: The Case of the Right to Marry / Jerome A. Barron
  • 13. Dual Systems of Adoption in the United States / Sanford N. Katz
  • 14. English Adoption Law: Past, Present, and Future / Nigel Lowe
  • C. Regulating and Reorganizing the Family
  • 15. Divorce in the United States / Ira Mark Ellman
  • 16. Divorce in England 1950-2000: A Moral Tale / Carol Smart
  • 17. The Finacial Incidents of family Dissolution / Grace Ganz Blumberg
  • 18. Post-Divorce Financial Obligations / John Eekelaar
  • 19. The Status of Children: A Story of Emerging Rights / Barbara Bennett
  • 20. Disputing Children / Michael Freeman
  • 21. The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at Century's End: The American Experience / Elizabeth Schneider
  • 22. Violence Against Women in the family / Rebecca Dobash and Russell Dobash
  • D. The Family and Governmental Agencies
  • 23. A Forum for Every Fuss: The Growth of Court Services and ADR Treatments for Family Law Cases in the United States / Jessica Pearson
  • 24. Access to Justice for Families in Post-War Britain / Mavis Maclean
  • 25. Child Wefare Policy and Practice in the United States from 1950 to 2000 / Martin Guggenheim
  • 26. From Curtis to Waterhouse: State Care and Child Protection in the UK 1945-2000 / Judith Masson
  • 27. The Hague Children's Conventions: The Internationalization of Child Law / Linda Silberman
  • E. Epilogues
  • 28. Individual Rights and Family Relationships / Sanford N. Katz
  • 29. The End of an Era? / John Eekelaar.