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Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the United States and England

Sanford KatzProfessor of Law, Boston College School of Law, USA, John EekelaarReader in Law and Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford, Mavis Maclean, Mavis MacLeanSenior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford

ISBN13: 9780198299448
ISBN: 0198299443
Published: September 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: Out of print



This unique contribution to comparative law brings together dedicated essays on a comprehensive range of issues in family law in the United States and England showing how they stand at the beginning of the new century and how they reached there. This provides an unparalleled opportunity to examine how family law has reacted to a period of change in family life widely held to be without precedent. The legal analyses are set within critical accounts of wider social and family policy and against a fully explored demographic background provided by leading scholars in these areas. Readers will be challenged to understand the nature of contemporary family law and its possible future direction.

Subjects:
Family Law
Contents:
A. BACKGROUND TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. How to Give the Present a Past: Family Law in the United States: 1950-2000
2. Changing Family Patterns in England and wales Over the Past Fifty Years
3. Century of the American Family
4. Family Policy in the Post-War Period
5. The Evolution of Family Policy in the United States after the Second World War
6. English Family Law Since The Second World War
B. ESTABLISHING THE FAMILY
7. The Shadowlands: The Regulation of Human Reproduction in the United States
8. The Legal Regulation of Infertility Treatment in Britain
9. Parenthood in the United States
10. Marriage, Cohabitation, and Parenthood: From Contract to Status?
11. Marriage: An Institution in Transition and Redefinition
12. The Constitutionalization of American Family Law: The Case of the Right to Marry
13. Dual Systems of Adoption in the United States
14. English Adoption Law: Past, Present, and Future
C. REGULATING AND REORGANIZING THE FAMILY
15. Divorce in the United States
16. Divorce in England 1950-2000: A Moral Tale
17. The Finacial Incidents of family Dissolution
18. Post-Divorce Financial Obligations
19. The Status of Children: A Story of Emerging Rights
20. Disputing Children
21. The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at Century's End: The American Experience
22. Violence Against Women in the family
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
24. Access to Justice for Families in Post-War Britain
25. Child Wefare Policy and Practice in the United States from 1950 to 2000
26. From Curtis to Waterhouse: State Care and Child Protection in the UK 1945-2000
27. The Hague Children's Conventions: The Internationalization of Child Law
E. EPILOGUES
28. Individual Rights and Family Relationships
29. The End of an Era?