Marriage at the Crossroads
law, policy, and the brave new world of twenty-first-century families
$119.20
- Paperback
358 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2012
Summary
Marriage at the Crossroads: Understanding a Shifting Landscape
The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. Across the developed world, cohabitation and births outside of marriage have surged, while marriage rates have plummeted to unprecedented lows.
These trends reveal a transformed ideal of marriage, now viewed as a symbol of achievement, alongside an expanding socioeconomic disparity in family structures. Children from privileged backgrounds are more likely…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107623705 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107623707 |
| Author: | Marsha Garrison, Elizabeth S. Scott |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 358 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 19mm |
About The Author
Marsha Garrison
Marsha Garrison is the Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and Secretary-General of the International Society of Family Law. She is the co-author of Family Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions (6th edition, 2007) and Law and Bioethics: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation (2nd edition, 2009).
Elizabeth Scott is the Harold R. Medina Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law. She is the co-author of Rethinking Juvenile Justice (with Laurence Steinberg, 2008), which received the 2010 award for the best social policy book by the Society for Research in Adolescence.
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