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From partners to parents : the second revolution in family law

Examining the changes that have occurred in families, family research, and family law in the late 20th century, this volume describes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children, rather than to each other
Print Book, English, 2000
Columbia University Press, New York, 2000
xv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780231111164, 9780231111171, 0231111169, 0231111177
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Introduction: From Partners to Parents
The Second Revolution in Family Law
Part I: From Partners to Parents: The Philosophical Divide
Economics and the Family: Reformulating the Old Order
Feminism and Political Theory: The Traditional Family and Its Discontents
Feminism and Economics: Becker Meets Okin
Law, Public Policy, and the Feminism of Difference
Liberal Feminism vs the Feminism of Difference: Or, The Huxtables vs Grace Under Fire
Fineman and Becker: Feminism vs Economics
Morality, Family, and the State
What Is the Purpose of Family Policy? Galston vs Fineman with the Others Watching from the Sidelines
Part II: From Partners to Parents: The Empirical Debate
History and the Making of the Modern Family (with Apologies to Edward Shorter)
Race, Class, and Controversy
What Did Happen? Economics Revisited
Economics and History: The Chapter Yet to Be Written
And What About the Children?
Part III: From Partners to Parents: The Legal Revolution
The Meaning of Marriage
Partnership Revisited
Child Support and the Parenthood Draft
Remaking of Fatherhood
Child Custody at Divorce: Ground Zero in the Gender Wars
Welfare Reform and the Permissibility of Motherhood
Renegotiating Childhood
Conclusion: From Partners to Parents The Unfinished Revolution 227