| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 443 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Tying the knot : marriage and promises to marry -- Marriage and the state -- Marriage, law, and society : a tangled web -- Common-law marriage -- The end of heart balm -- pt. 2. Anything goes : marriage in a permissive age -- The rise of sexual freedom -- Cohabitation -- Same-sex relationships -- pt. 3. When the music stops : dissolving a marriage and the aftermath -- Untying the knot : divorce and annulment -- Dollars and sense : the economic consequences of divorce -- Collateral damage : the children of divorce -- pt. 4. The old and the new generation -- The extended family : elder law and the law of inheritance -- Parents and children : rights and duties -- Who do we belong to? Parentage and the law -- Chosen people : adoption and the law |
| Summary |
Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-422) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Domestic relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Marriage law -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Parent and child (Law) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Domestic relations
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Marriage law
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Parent and child (Law)
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930-
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| ISBN |
9781400839773 |
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1400839777 |
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