Silent Revolution The Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States

Name: Silent Revolution The Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States
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ISBN: 9780226389516

ISBN-10: 0226389510

ISBN-13: 9780226389516

Edition: 1988

Authors: Herbert Jacob

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Conflict and controversy usually accompany major social changes in America. Such issues as civil rights, abortion, and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment provoke strong and divisive reactions, attract extensive media coverage, and generate heated legislative debate. Some theorists even claim that only mobilization and publicity can stimulate significant legislative change. How is it possible, then, that a wholesale revamping of American divorce law occurred with scarcely a whisper of controversy and without any national debate? This is the central question posed--and authoritatively answered--in Herbert Jacob's Silent Revolution. Since 1966, divorce laws in the United States have…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/27/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Silent Revolution



Social Conditions and Family Change



Breaking the Logjam of Divorce Law Revision: New York



California's Bold Step



Nationalizing No-Fault Divorce: The NCCUSL



The Vagaries of Diffusion



The Transformation of Property at Divorce



What Should Happen to the Children?



The Consequences of Divorce Law Change



Routine Policy Making and Divorce Appendix


Notes


Index