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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170996303321

Autore

Gibson Colin S. <1937->

Titolo

Dissolving wedlock / / Colin S. Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

1-134-96827-2

1-134-96828-0

1-280-10541-0

0-203-19199-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

306.89/0942

Soggetti

Divorce - England - History

Divorce - Wales - History

Marriage - England - History

Marriage - Wales - History

Marriage law - England

Marriage law - Wales

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; Ecclesiastical influence and jurisdiction in matrimonial matters; Decline of the ecclesiastical courts; Parliamentary divorce; The coming of judicial divorce; Constraints of poverty and gender; Between the wars; From matrimonial offence to irretrievable breakdown; Changing family patterns; The resort to divorce: the social evidence; The reconstituted family; Divorce: the legal evidence; Family breakdown, protection and the law; Accounting for family support; Marriage breakdown in the 1990's; Notes; Bibliography; Name index

Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The divorce rate has been rising significantly throughout the twentieth century. By interweaving the historical, demographic, sociological, legal, political and policy aspects of this increase, Colin Gibson explores the effects it has had on family patterns and habits. Dissolving Wedlock presents a multi-disciplinary examination of all the socio-



legal consequences of family breakdown. Dissolving Wedlock will be invaluable reading to all lecturers and students of social policy, sociology and social work as well as to professionals and lawyers working in the field of divorce...