- 296 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray current trends in family life, explain the pressing policy challenges these trends have produced, and analyze the changes in family law that are essential to meeting these challenges.
The challenges are large and pressing. Across the industrialized West, nonmarital birth, relational stress, multi-partner fertility, and relationship dissolution have increased, producing a dramatic rise in single parenthood, poverty, and childhood risk. This concentration of familial and economic risk accelerates socioeconomic inequality and retards intergenerational mobility. Although the divide is most pronounced in the United States, the same patterns now affect families throughout the Western world. Across the European Union, there are 9.2 million "lone" parents, and just under half of their families live in poverty. Tying the Knot demonstrates how today's family patterns are deeply rooted in long-standing, class-based differences in family life and explains why these class-based differences have accelerated. It explains how the values that guide family law development inevitably reflect the world in which families live and develops a new family law capable of meeting the needs of twenty-first century families.
The book will be of considerable interest to family specialists from a number of fields, including law, demography, economics, history, political science, public health, social policy, and sociology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Evolution and Revolution: Family Life and Law from the Elizabethan Era to the Mid-Twentieth Century
- 2 Family Life Today: Old and New Patterns, Old and New Problems
- 3 Family Values Today: What Goals Should Guide Contemporary Family Law?
- 4 The New Law of Divorce: From Adjudication to Administrative Case Processing, from Discretion to Rules
- 5 The New Law of Adult Relational Status: Charting the Similarities and Differences in Marriage and Cohabitation
- 6 Family Life: The State’s Role in Promoting Durable, Harmonious Family Relationships
- 7 Family Care and Family Law: Balancing Public and Private Obligations to Achieve Family Justice
- Afterword: A Brief Summary
- Notes
- Index