Dissolving Wedlock

Name: Dissolving Wedlock
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ISBN: 9780415032254

ISBN-10: 0415032253

ISBN-13: 9780415032254

Edition: 1993

Authors: Colin Gibson

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InDissolving Wedlock, Colin Gibson takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject of divorce, the current fate for forty-five percent of all marriages. Gibson's study combines the demographic, historical, social and legal evidence of the changing nature of marriage breakdown, placing particular emphasis on the state's processing of broken marriages in England and Wales. The first half traces the interaction between social change, marriage patterns, family law and Parliamentary legislation from the eighteenth century to the present. Gibson also examines the consequences of morally and socially divisive legal regulations which sanctioned separation but harshly restricted divorce as well…

Book details

List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/14/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Before Civil Divorce



Ecclesiastical Influence and Jurisdiction in Matrimonial Matters



Decline of the Ecclesiastical Courts



Parliamentary Divorce



The Coming of Judicial Divorce



Divorce or Separation



Constraints of Poverty and Gender



Between the Wars



From Matrimonial Offence to Irretrievable Breakdown



Marriage Patterns in the Twentieth Century



Changing Family Patterns



The Resort to Divorce: The Social Evidence



The Reconstituted Family



Marriage Breakdown Today



Divorce: The Legal Evidence



Family Breakdown, Protection and the Law



Accounting for Family Support



Marriage Breakdown in the 1990s


Notes


Bibliography


Name Index


Subject Index