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Zusatztext A crisp and cogent account - rich with detail and utterly free of legalese - of America's failure to invest in its children." - New York Times Informationen zum Autor June Carbone is the inaugural holder of the Robina Chair of Law, Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law, the third and fourth editions of Family Law with Leslie Harris and the late Lee Teitelbaum, and Red Families v. Blue Families with Naomi Cahn. She is also a member of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project.Naomi Cahn, the Harold H. Greene Professor at George Washington University Law School, has written numerous articles and several books in a variety of areas. With June Carbone, she has also co-authored Red Families v. Blue Families. Other books include: Finding Our Families (with Wendy Kramer); The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families; and co-authored casebooks in family law and trusts and estates. She is a Senior Fellow at the Donaldson Adoption Institute, a board member for the Donor Sibling Registry, and a member of the GW Global Gender Program advisory board. Klappentext In this rigorous and enlightening account of why American families have transformed so much since the 1960s, two leading scholars of family law argue that the changing economy, rather than changing morals, is at the root of family instability. Zusammenfassung In this rigorous and enlightening account of why American families have transformed so much since the 1960s, two leading scholars of family law argue that the changing economy, rather than changing morals, is at the root of family instability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Section I: The Puzzles of Today's Families Chapter 1: Changing Families Chapter 2: The New Foundations for Family Life: The Disappearance of the Center and the Emergence of Marriage As a Marker of Class Chapter 3: Not Blaming the Victim: Derailed by Moynihan Chapter 4: Blaming the Victim: The Morality Tale Chapter 5: Getting Closer: The Rediscovery of Marriage Markets Section II: The New Terms Chapter 6: The Heart of the Matter Chapter 7: Where the Men Are Chapter 8: Remaking Class Barriers: Children and Achievement Chapter 9: The Recreation of Class Section III: Legalizing Inequality: The Class Divide in the Meaning of Family Law Chapter 10: The Law: Rewriting the Marital Script Chapter 11: Shared Parenting: Egalitarian, Patriarchal or Both? Section IV: Rebuilding Community: Inequality, Class, and Family Chapter 12: Rebuilding From the Top Down: The Family, Inequality and Employment Chapter 13: Rebuilding from the Bottom up: Addressing Children's Needs. Chapter 14: Sex, Power, Patriarchy and Parental Obligation Chapter 15: The Rebirth of Community and the Family ...
