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Autore |
Gibson Colin S. <1937-> |
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Titolo |
Dissolving wedlock / / Colin S. Gibson |
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London, : New York, : Routledge, 1994 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-96827-2 |
1-134-96828-0 |
1-280-10541-0 |
0-203-19199-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Divorce - England - History |
Divorce - Wales - History |
Marriage - England - History |
Marriage - Wales - History |
Marriage law - England |
Marriage law - Wales |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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- |
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