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Zusatztext Cross Currents is set deservedly to become one of the standard texts on family law on both sides of the Atlantic for the next generation of students and scholars. Informationen zum Autor Sanford Katz is Professor of Law at Boston College School of LawJohn Eekelaar is Reader in Law and Fellow of Pembroke College, OxfordMavis MacLean is Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This unique contribution to comparative family 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 family law and its possible future direction. Inhaltsverzeichnis A. Background to the Twentieth Century 1: Michael Grossberg: How to Give the Present a Past: Family Law in the United States: 1950-2000 2: Colin Gibson: Changing Family Patterns in England and wales Over the Past Fifty Years 3: Donna Duane Morrison: Century of the American Family 4: Jane Lewis: Family Policy in the Post-War Period 5: Barry L. Friedman and Martin Rein: The Evolution of Family Policy in the United States after the Second World War 6: John Dewar: English Family Law Since The Second World War B. Establishing the Family 7: George J. Annas: The Shadowlands: The Regulation of Human Reproduction in the United States 8: Ruth Deech: The Legal Regulation of Infertility Treatment in Britain 9: Ruth-Arlene W. Howe: Parenthood in the United States 10: Gillian Douglas: Marriage, Cohabitation, and Parenthood: From Contract to Status? 11: Walter J. Wadlington , Jr.: Marriage: An Institution in Transition and Redefinition 12: Jerome A. Barron: The Constitutionalization of American Family Law: The Case of the Right to Marry 13: Sanford N. Katz: Dual Systems of Adoption in the United States 14: Nigel Lowe: English Adoption Law: Past, Present, and Future C. Regulating and Reorganizing the Family 15: Ira Mark Ellman: Divorce in the United States 16: Carol Smart: Divorce in England 1950-2000: A Moral Tale 17: Grace Ganz Blumberg: The Finacial Incidents of family Dissolution 18: John Eekelaar: Post-Divorce Financial Obligations 19: Barbara Bennett: The Status of Children: A Story of Emerging Rights 20: Michael Freeman: Disputing Children 21: Elizabeth Schneider: The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at Century's End: The American Experience 22: Rebecca Dobash and Russell Dobash: Violence Against Women in the family D. The Family and Governmental Agencies 23: Jessica Pearson: A Forum for Every Fuss: The Growth of Court Services and ADR Treatments for Family Law Cases in the United States 24: Mavis Maclean: Access to Justice for Families in Post-War Britain 25: Martin Guggenheim: Child Wefare Policy and Practice in the United States from 1950 to 2000 26: Judith Masson: From Curtis to Waterhouse: State Care and Child Protection in the UK 1945-2000 27: Linda Silberman: The Hague Children's Conventions: The Internationalization of Child Law E. Epilogues 28: Sanford N...
