Cross Currents Family Law Policy in the United States and England

by Katz, Sanford A.; Eekelaar, John; MacLean, Mavis

• ISBN13: 9780198268208
• ISBN10: 0198268203
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

List of Contributors	xi
A. Background to the Twentieth Century
How to Give the Present a Past? Family Law in the United States 1950-2000	1	(30)
Michael Grossberg
Changing Family Patterns in England and Wales over the Last Fifty Years	31	(26)
Colin Gibson
A Century of the American Family	57	(24)
Donna Ruane Morrison
Family Policy in the Post-War Period	81	(20)
Jane Lewis
The Evolution of Family Policy in the United States after World War II	101	(22)
Barry L. Friedman
Martin Rein
English Family Law since World War II: From Status to Chaos	123	(20)
John Dewar
Stephen Parker
B. Establishing the Family
The Shadowlands: The Regulation of Human Reproduction in the United States	143	(22)
George J. Annas
The Legal Regulation of Infertility Treatment in Britain	165	(22)
Ruth Deech
Parenthood in the United States	187	(24)
Ruth-Arlene W. Howe
Marriage, Cohabitation, and Parenthood--from Contract to Status?	211	(24)
Gillian Douglas
Marriage: An Institution in Transition and Redefinition	235	(22)
Walter J. Wadlington
The Constitutionalization of American Family Law: The Case of the Right to Marry	257	(22)
Jerome A. Barron
Dual Systems of Adoption in the United States	279	(28)
Sanford N. Katz
English Adoption Law: Past, Present, and Future	307	(34)
Nigel Lowe
C. Regulating and Reorganizing the Family
Divorce in the United States	341	(22)
Ira Mark Ellman
Divorce in England 1950-2000: A Moral Tale?	363	(24)
Carol Smart
The Financial Incidents of Family Dissolution	387	(18)
Grace Ganz Blumberg
Post-divorce Financial Obligations	405	(18)
John Eekelaar
The Status of Children: A Story of Emerging Rights	423	(18)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Disputing Children	441	(30)
Michael Freeman
The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at Century's End: The US Experience	471	(24)
Elizabeth M. Schneider
Violence Against Women in the Family	495	(18)
Rebecca Dobash
Russell Dobash
D. The Family and Governmental Agencies
A Forum for Every Fuss: The Growth of Court Services and ADR Treatments for Family Law Cases in the United States	513	(20)
Jessica Pearson
Access to Justice in Family Matters in Post-War Britain	533	(14)
Mavis Maclean
Child Welfare Policy and Practice in the United States 1950-2000	547	(18)
Martin Guggenheim
From Curtis to Waterhouse: State Care and Child Protection in the UK 1945-2000	565	(24)
Judith Masson
The Hague Children's Conventions: The Internationalization of Child Law	589	(30)
Linda Silberman
E. Epilogues
Individual Rights and Family Relationships	619	(18)
Sanford N. Katz
The End of an Era?	637	(22)
John Eekelaar
Index	659