Marriage at the crossroads : law, policy, and the brave new world of twenty-first-century families / edited by Marsha Garrison, Brooklyn Law School, Elizabeth S. Scott, Columbia University Law School.
2012
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Marriage at the crossroads : law, policy, and the brave new world of twenty-first-century families / edited by Marsha Garrison, Brooklyn Law School, Elizabeth S. Scott, Columbia University Law School.
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Call Number
HQ536 .M3243 2012
ISBN
1107623707 (pbk.)
9781107623705 (pbk.)
1107018277 (hardback)
9781107018273 (hardback)
9781107623705 (pbk.)
1107018277 (hardback)
9781107018273 (hardback)
Description
xv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
99951001340
System Control No.
(OCoLC)835887596
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Contributors
vii
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction / Elizabeth S. Scott
1
pt. I
HISTORY, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND ECONOMICS - MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES
1.
Red v. Blue Marriage / Naomi Cahn
9
2.
International Family Change and Continuity: The Past and Future from the Developmental Idealism Perspective / Arland Thornton
30
3.
The Division of Household Labor across Time and Generations / Margaret F. Brinig
54
4.
Marriage at the Crossroads in England and Wales / Rebecca Probert
73
5.
The Curious Relationship of Marriage and Freedom / Katherine Franke
87
pt. II
EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON FAMILY CHANGE
6.
Institutional, Companionate, and Individualistic Marriages: Change over Time and Implications for Marital Quality / Paul R. Amato
87
7.
Marriage and Improved Well-Being: Using Twins to Parse the Correlation, Asking How Marriage Helps, and Wondering Why More People Don't Buy a Bargain / Christopher R. Beam
126
8.
Fragile Families: Debates, Facts, and Solutions / Irwin Garfinkel
142
9.
Should Marriage Matter? / Sanford L. Braver
170
pt. III
FAMILY POLICY AND LAW FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
10.
Forsaking No Others: Coming to Terms with Family Diversity / Judith Stacey
170
11.
Why Marriage? / Suzanne B. Goldberg
224
12.
Essential to Virtue? The Languages of the Law of Marriage / Carl E. Schneider
241
13.
The Pluralistic Vision of Marriage / Shahar Lifshitz
260
COMMENTS
14.
The Growing Diversity of Two-Parent Families: Challenges for Family Law / Andrew J. Cherlin
287
15.
Legal Regulation of Twenty-First-Century Families / Elizabeth S. Scott
303
Index
327