ISBN:
9780415032254
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Dissolving Wedlock
DDC:
306.89/0942
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The divorce rate has been rising significantly throughout the twentieth century. By interweaving the historical, demographic, sociological, legal, political and policy aspects of this increase, Colin Gibson explores the effects it has had on family patterns and habits. Dissolving Wedlock presents a multi-disciplinary examination of all the socio-legal consequences of family breakdown. Dissolving Wedlock will be invaluable reading to all lecturers and students of social policy, sociology and social work as well as to professionals and lawyers working in the field of divorce
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; Ecclesiastical influence and jurisdiction in matrimonial matters; Decline of the ecclesiastical courts; Parliamentary divorce; The coming of judicial divorce; Constraints of poverty and gender; Between the wars; From matrimonial offence to irretrievable breakdown; Changing family patterns; The resort to divorce: the social evidence; The reconstituted family; Divorce: the legal evidence; Family breakdown, protection and the law; Accounting for family support; Marriage breakdown in the 1990s; Notes; Bibliography; Name index
Description / Table of Contents:
Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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