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Unmarried couples, law, and public policy / Cynthia Grant Bowman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowman, Cynthia Grant, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unmarried couples--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Unmarried couples.
- Unmarried couples--Social aspects--United States.
- Unmarried couples--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States. Unmarried cohabitation has increased at a phenomenal rate in the U.S. over the last few decades, but the law has not responded to the legal issues raised by this new family form. Although a majority of cohabiting unions dissolve within the first two years, many are longer in term and function like other families; a large number of children also reside in these households. If one partner dies, is injured, or leaves the family, the remaining family...
- Contents:
- Cohabitation in the United States : the past
- Legal treatment of cohabitation in the United States today
- Cohabitation in the United States today
- Social science and cohabitation
- Treatment of cohabitation in other nations
- A new law for cohabitants in the United States.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-13005-X
- 9786613130051
- 0-19-970714-6
- OCLC:
- 821637073
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