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Governing the Hearth Law and the Family in Nineteenth Century America Studies in Legal History

by [Grossberg, Michael]

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Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished male authority, increased women's and children's rights, and fixed more clearly the state's responsibilities in family affairs. Grossberg further illustrates why many basic principles of this distinctive and powerful new body of law -- antiabortion and maternal biases in child custody -- remained in effect well into the twentieth century.

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  • The University of North C Brand
  • Aug 1, 1988 Pub Date:
  • 9780807842256 ISBN-13:
  • 0807842257 ISBN-10:
  • 436.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 9.21 in * 1.08 in * 6.14 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: