Cross Currents Family Law Policy in the

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.

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

List of Contributors

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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

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