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Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families
Marsha Garrison
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paperback. This book provides tools to inform debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about the institution of marriage. Editor(s): Garrison, Marsha; Scott, Elizabeth S. Num Pages: 358 pages, 22 b/w illus. 10 tables. BIC Classification: JHBK; LNMB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474. Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families. 358 pages, 22 b/w illus. 10 tables. Editor(s): Garrison, Marsha; Scott, Elizabeth. This book provides tools to inform debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about the institution of marriage. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JHBK; LNMB. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 19. Weight: 482.
The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate ... Read more
The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107623705
SKU
V9781107623705
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99-22
About 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 ... Read more
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