Cross Currents Family La Policy in the United States and England [Hardcover]

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.

A. Background to the Twentieth Century
1. How to Give the Present a Past: Family Law in the United States: 1950-2000,Michael Grossberg
2. Changing Family Patterns in England and wales Over the Past Fifty Years,Colin Gibson
3. Century of the American Family,Donna Duane Morrison
4. Family Policy in the Post-War Period,Jane Lewis
5. The Evolution of Family Policy in the United States after the Second World War,Barry L. Friedman and Martin Rein
6. English Family Law Since The Second World War,John Dewar
B. Establishing the Family
7. The Shadowlands: The Regulation of Human Reproduction in the United States,George J. Annas
8. The Legal Regulation of Infertility Treatment in Britain,Ruth Deech
9. Parenthood in the United States,Ruth-Arlene W. Howe
10. Marriage, Cohabitation, and Parenthood: From Contract to Status?,Gillian Douglas
11. 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. Barron
13. Dual Systems of Adoption in the United States,Sanford N. Katz
14. English Adoption Law: Past, Present, and Future,Nigel Lowe
C. Regulating and Reorganizing the Family
15. Divorce in the United States,Ira Mark Ellman
16. Divorce in England 1950-2000: A Moral Tale,Carol Smart
17. The Finacial Incidents of family Dissolution,Grace Ganzlƒ…