Family Law in a Changing America [Connected eBook with Study Center]

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• Updated coverage on reproductive justice and abortion access
• Expanded and updated and coverage of the Indian Child Welfare Act
• Updated coverage on the child welfare system and a focus on debates over abolition

• Text that includes dramatic changes in family patterns, including declining marriage rates, with differential rates based on race and class; increasing rates of nonmarital cohabitation and nonmarital parenting; tensions between women's increasing education and employment and the perseverance of the gendered division of labor in families
• An approach that decenters the marital heterosexual family and instead is structured around the general topics of adult relationships and parent-child relationships
• Focus on the scope of family law, including extensive coverage of crucial sites of family regulation that are traditionally given short shrift
• Emphasis on multiple modes of legal interpretation (common law, constitutional, statutory) and multiple actors in the legal system (judges, legislators, lawyers, experts, social workers)
• Practical problems and exercises that illuminate the gaps, tensions, and implications of existing doctrine; some of the problems include postscripts explaining how the issue was resolved by a court or legislature
• An approach that draws on more recent cases and cutting-edge issues and that includes extensive coverage of the rights of unmarried partners, reproductive justice, assisted reproduction; parentage (including intentional parenthood, functional parenthood, and multi-parent arrangements), adoption (including open adoption, transracial adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act), the child welfare system, and family support

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