Inside the castle [electronic resource] : law and the family in 20th century America / Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman.
Grossman, Joanna L.; Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930-
2011
KF505 .G765 2011eb
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Title
Inside the castle [electronic resource] : law and the family in 20th century America / Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman.
Author
Grossman, Joanna L.
ISBN
9781400839773 (electronic bk.)
9780691149820
0691149828
Publication Details
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 443 p.)
Call Number
KF505 .G765 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
346.7301/5
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-422) and index.
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Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930-
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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.

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