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

by Sanford A. Katz (Editor), John Eekelaar (Editor), Mavis MacLean (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198268208
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/15/2001
Pages:	680
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

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

A. Background to the Twentieth Century1. How to Give the Present a Past: Family Law in the United States: 1950-2000, Michael Grossberg2. Changing Family Patterns in England and wales Over the Past Fifty Years, Colin Gibson3. Century of the American Family, Donna Duane Morrison4. Family Policy in the Post-War Period, Jane Lewis5. The Evolution of Family Policy in the United States after the Second World War, Barry L. Friedman and Martin Rein6. English Family Law Since The Second World War, John DewarB. Establishing the Family7. The Shadowlands: The Regulation of Human Reproduction in the United States, George J. Annas8. The Legal Regulation of Infertility Treatment in Britain, Ruth Deech9. Parenthood in the United States, Ruth-Arlene W. Howe10. Marriage, Cohabitation, and Parenthood: From Contract to Status?, Gillian Douglas11 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. Barron13. Dual Systems of Adoption in the United States, Sanford N. Katz14. English Adoption Law: Past, Present, and Future, Nigel LoweC. Regulating and Reorganizing the Family15. Divorce in the United States, Ira Mark Ellman16. Divorce in England 1950-2000: A Moral Tale, Carol Smart17. The Finacial Incidents of family Dissolution, Grace Ganz Blumberg18. Post-Divorce Financial Obligations, John Eekelaar19. The Status of Children: A Story of Emerging Rights, Barbara Bennett20. Disputing Children, Michael Freeman21. The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at Century's End: The American Experience, Elizabeth Schneider22. Violence Against Women in the family, Rebecca Dobash and Russell DobashD. The Family and Governmental Agencies23. A Forum for Every Fuss: The Growth of Court Services and ADR Treatments for Family Law Cases in the United States, Jessica Pearson24. Access to Justice for Families in Post-War Britain, Mavis Maclean25. Child Wefare Policy and Practice in the United States from 1950 to 2000, Martin Guggenheim26. From Curtis to Waterhouse: State Care and Child Protection in the UK 1945-2000, Judith Masson27. The Hague Children's Conventions: The Internationalization of Child Law, Linda SilbermanE. Epilogues28. Individual Rights and Family Relationships, Sanford N. Katz29. The End of an Era?, John Eekelaar