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Category : Domestic relations
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Role of Culture and Tradition in Family Law
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The Role of Culture and Tradition in Family Law
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Gender, Religion, and Family Law
Author: Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683270
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683270
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices
Family Law and Personal Life
Author: John Eekelaar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199213828
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
How should our most intimate personal relationships be governed in a liberal society? Should the state encourage a particular model of family life, or support individuals in their pursuit of personal happiness? To what extent do people have the right to shape the lives of their offspring? This book examines the questions at the heart of family law, rethinking the ideas that shape our understanding of the family as a social unit, its purpose, and the obligations and rights that belong to family members. The book explores how the governance of personal relationships has depended on the exercise of power, from the traditional assumptions of patriarchy, where the male head of the family enjoyed full control over his dependents and descendents, to the ideology of welfarism, where state institutions protect the interests of the vulnerable at the expense of their close relations. Emerging from these conflicting ideologies comes today's rights-based culture, where traditional expectations for behavior within a family sit within a new emphasis on the ability of minorities and traditional dependents to determine the shape of their own lives. Against this background of shifting power relations, the book explores the inter-relationship between the legal regulation of people's personal lives and the values of friendship, truth, respect and responsibility. In doing this, a variety of controversial issues are examined in the light of those values: including the legal regulation of gay and unmarried heterosexual relationships; freedom of procreation; state supervision over the exercise of parenthood; the role of fault in divorce law; the way parenthood is allocated; the rights and responsibilities of parents to control their children; the place of religion in the family; the rights of separated partners regarding property and of separated parents regarding their children. Throughout, the book offers a new picture of the intimacy at the center of personal relationships and argues that only by understanding this intimacy, and its role in human happiness, can we arrive at a true framework for respecting, and governing, the personal lives of other people.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199213828
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
How should our most intimate personal relationships be governed in a liberal society? Should the state encourage a particular model of family life, or support individuals in their pursuit of personal happiness? To what extent do people have the right to shape the lives of their offspring? This book examines the questions at the heart of family law, rethinking the ideas that shape our understanding of the family as a social unit, its purpose, and the obligations and rights that belong to family members. The book explores how the governance of personal relationships has depended on the exercise of power, from the traditional assumptions of patriarchy, where the male head of the family enjoyed full control over his dependents and descendents, to the ideology of welfarism, where state institutions protect the interests of the vulnerable at the expense of their close relations. Emerging from these conflicting ideologies comes today's rights-based culture, where traditional expectations for behavior within a family sit within a new emphasis on the ability of minorities and traditional dependents to determine the shape of their own lives. Against this background of shifting power relations, the book explores the inter-relationship between the legal regulation of people's personal lives and the values of friendship, truth, respect and responsibility. In doing this, a variety of controversial issues are examined in the light of those values: including the legal regulation of gay and unmarried heterosexual relationships; freedom of procreation; state supervision over the exercise of parenthood; the role of fault in divorce law; the way parenthood is allocated; the rights and responsibilities of parents to control their children; the place of religion in the family; the rights of separated partners regarding property and of separated parents regarding their children. Throughout, the book offers a new picture of the intimacy at the center of personal relationships and argues that only by understanding this intimacy, and its role in human happiness, can we arrive at a true framework for respecting, and governing, the personal lives of other people.
Family Law and Customary Law in Asia
Author: David C. Buxbaum
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401762163
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401762163
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Families Across Cultures
Author: James Georgas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457640
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Contemporary trends such as increased one-parent families, high divorce rates, second marriages and homosexual partnerships have all contributed to variations in the traditional family structure. But to what degree has the function of the family changed and how have these changes affected family roles in cultures throughout the world? This book attempts to answer these questions through a psychological study of families in thirty nations, carefully selected to present a diverse cultural mix. The study utilises both cross-cultural and indigenous perspectives to analyse variables including family networks, family roles, emotional bonds, personality traits, self-construal, and 'family portraits' in which the authors address common core themes of the family as they apply to their native countries. From the introductory history of the study of the family to the concluding indigenous psychological analysis of the family, this book is a source for students and researchers in psychology, sociology and anthropology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457640
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Contemporary trends such as increased one-parent families, high divorce rates, second marriages and homosexual partnerships have all contributed to variations in the traditional family structure. But to what degree has the function of the family changed and how have these changes affected family roles in cultures throughout the world? This book attempts to answer these questions through a psychological study of families in thirty nations, carefully selected to present a diverse cultural mix. The study utilises both cross-cultural and indigenous perspectives to analyse variables including family networks, family roles, emotional bonds, personality traits, self-construal, and 'family portraits' in which the authors address common core themes of the family as they apply to their native countries. From the introductory history of the study of the family to the concluding indigenous psychological analysis of the family, this book is a source for students and researchers in psychology, sociology and anthropology.
Family Law
Author: Mary Welstead
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019966420X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This work provides a clear introduction to family law, giving concise coverage of major undergraduate topics, such as civil partnership, domestic violence, divorce and the role of the state in children's upbringing.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019966420X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This work provides a clear introduction to family law, giving concise coverage of major undergraduate topics, such as civil partnership, domestic violence, divorce and the role of the state in children's upbringing.
Family Law and Culture in Europe
Author: Katharina Boele-Woelki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780681597
Category : Conflict of laws
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Proceedings of the fifth conference of the Commission on European Family Law on "Family Law and Culture in Europe: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities" held in Bonn, Germany in August of 2013.
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ISBN: 9781780681597
Category : Conflict of laws
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Proceedings of the fifth conference of the Commission on European Family Law on "Family Law and Culture in Europe: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities" held in Bonn, Germany in August of 2013.
Private Lives
Author: Lawrence Meir Friedman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015623
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Drawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the complexities of family law and family life--including the tensions between the laws on the books and contemporary arrangements for marriage, divorce, adoption, and child rearing.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015623
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Drawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the complexities of family law and family life--including the tensions between the laws on the books and contemporary arrangements for marriage, divorce, adoption, and child rearing.
Women, Law and Culture
Author: Jocelynne A. Scutt
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319449389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class or status. Written by scholars from a wide range of specialists in law, sociology, anthropology, popular and cultural studies, history, communications, film and sex and gender, this study provides an authoritative take on different cultures, cultural demands and constraints, contradictions and requirements for conformity generating conflict. Women, Law and Culture is distinctive because it recognises that no particular culture singles out women for 'special' treatment, rules and requirements; rather, all do. Highlighting the way law and culture are intimately intertwined, impacting on women – whatever their country and social and economic status – this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, women’s and gender studies and media studies.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319449389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class or status. Written by scholars from a wide range of specialists in law, sociology, anthropology, popular and cultural studies, history, communications, film and sex and gender, this study provides an authoritative take on different cultures, cultural demands and constraints, contradictions and requirements for conformity generating conflict. Women, Law and Culture is distinctive because it recognises that no particular culture singles out women for 'special' treatment, rules and requirements; rather, all do. Highlighting the way law and culture are intimately intertwined, impacting on women – whatever their country and social and economic status – this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, women’s and gender studies and media studies.