From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law

Examining the substantial changes that have occurred in families, family research, and family law over the last twenty years, this book describes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family from an emphasis on partners' relationships with each other to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children. Carbone's interdisciplinary approach evaluates historical, sociological, and psychological research to show how family change is part of a long-term response to changing industrial organization, and to assess the impact of changing family form on children.