Dissolving wedlock / Colin S. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Colin S., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Divorce--England--History.

Divorce.

Divorce--Wales--History.

Marriage--England--History.

Marriage.

Marriage--Wales--History.

Marriage law--England.

Marriage law.

Marriage law--Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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...

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-96827-2

1-134-96828-0

1-280-10541-0

0-203-19199-4

9780203191996

OCLC:

475884801