TY - GEN AB - Despite declining prohibitions on sexual relationships, Americans are nearly unanimous in condemning marital infidelity. Deborah Rhode explores why. She exposes the harms that criminalizing adultery inflicts-including civil lawsuits, job termination, and loss of child custody-and makes a case for repealing laws against adultery and polygamy. AU - Rhode, Deborah L., CN - KF9435 DO - 10.4159/9780674969742 DO - doi ID - 1480483 JF - Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 KW - Adultery KW - Adultery KW - Adultery KW - LAW / Legal History. LA - eng LA - In English. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969742 N2 - Despite declining prohibitions on sexual relationships, Americans are nearly unanimous in condemning marital infidelity. Deborah Rhode explores why. She exposes the harms that criminalizing adultery inflicts-including civil lawsuits, job termination, and loss of child custody-and makes a case for repealing laws against adultery and polygamy. SN - 9780674969742 T1 - Adultery :Infidelity and the Law / TI - Adultery :Infidelity and the Law / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969742 ER -