From Partners to Parents the 2nd Revolution in Family Law
- List Price: $80.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
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Examining the substantial changes that have occurred in families, family research, and family law over the last twenty years, this volume describes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family from an emphasis on partners' relationships with each other to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children. In this model, custody has replaced fault as the most important determination made at divorce, and financial and emotional maturity are replacing marital status as the indicia of responsible parenthood.
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June Carbone's broadly interdisciplinary approach, drawing on economics, law, philosophy, and feminism -- as well as references to popular culture, from Doonesbury cartoons to Grace Under Fire -- serves as an intellectual survey of family research and of the major theoretical approaches to the family. She evaluates historical, sociological, and psychological research to show how family change is part of a long-term response to changing industrial organization, and to assess the impact of changing family form on children.
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