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| Introduction | |
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| What Is a Family? | |
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| Images of Family As Haven, Family As Hell | |
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| Blood Relations | |
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| Royal Beatings | |
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| Definitions of Family: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who Decides | |
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| The New Family | |
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| Personal Kindreds | |
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| Danny in Transit | |
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| Friends At Last | |
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| Entering families: Fact or Law? | |
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| Becoming a Parent | |
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| Choosing Parenthood | |
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| Hand-Me-Down Dreams | |
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| Pregnant on Purpose | |
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| Adoption | |
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| A Market for Babies | |
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| Where Do Black Children Belong?: The Politics of Race-Matching in Adoption | |
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| Comment on "Where Do Black Children Belong?" | |
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| New Reproductive Technologies | |
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| Do New Reproductive Techniques Threaten the Family? | |
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| Inside the Surrogate Industry | |
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| Foster Care | |
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| Why Should I Give My Baby Back? | |
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| Foster Care and the Politics of Compassion | |
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| Mothering vs. Fathering | |
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| Night Pieces: For a Child | |
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| Justice, Gender, and the Family | |
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| Pregnancy Leave Discriminates Against Men! | |
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| The New Father | |
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| Who May Marry? | |
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| An Impossible Marriage: Slave Law and Family Law | |
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| Some Complicating Thoughts on Same-Sex Marriage | |
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| Most Like an Arch this Marriage | |
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| Cohabiting Without Marriage | |
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| Deconstructing Contract Doctrine | |
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| Into the Badlands | |
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| Violence and Neglect | |
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| Violence in Families, Neglect by the State | |
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| Intimate Violence | |
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| Violence in Intimate Relationships | |
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| Social Policy and Elder Abuse | |
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| "Words and the Door to the Land of Change": Law, Language, and Family Violence, part one | |
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| Neglect by Families, Violence by the State | |
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| I Stand Here Ironing | |
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| Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged | |
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| No Name Maddox, Case History of Charles Manson | |
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| Race, Gender and Violence Against Women | |
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| Making an Issue of Child Abuse | |
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| Responding to Violence and Neglect | |
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| For Shelter and Beyond | |
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| Welcome and Rules | |
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| Women's Experience and the Problem of Transition | |
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| "Words and the Door to the Land of Change": Law, Language, and Family Violence, part two | |
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| Debates Over "State Intervention" | |
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| The Myth of State Intervention in the Family | |
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| Medical Treatment Decisions | |
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| A Reckoning | |
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| As Family Protests, Hospital Seeks an End to Woman's Life Support | |
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| Guardianship of Phillip Becker | |
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| Pact on Custody Leads to Surgery | |
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| Representing Lesbians | |
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| Family Break-Up and Reorganization | |
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| Why Should the State Care? | |
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| Epilogue: The Pursuit of Happiness | |
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| But Where Are The Men | |
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| New Family Car | |
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| Consider the Consequences: Review of Lenore Weitzman's The Divorce Revolution | |
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| Child Custody, Visitation, and Support | |
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| The Politics of Family Law | |
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| Cultural Perspectives on Child Welfare | |
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| Child Support and Visitation: Rethinking the Connections | |
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| Justifying the Continued Use of Jail | |
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| Family Structure, Black Unemployment and American Social Policy | |
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| Access to Lawyers, Access to Court, Access to Law | |
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| Northside Secretarial Service: Charge of Unauthorized Practice | |
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| Lawyers and Legal Consciousness: Law Talk in the Divorce Lawyer's Office | |
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| Pro Se Divorce: A Strategy for Empowering Women | |
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| Alternatives to Court, Alternatives to Law, Alternatives to Family Law | |
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| The New Mediators | |
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| Divorce Mediation: A Critical Overview | |
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| Dominant Discourse, Professional Language, and Legal Change in Child Custody Decision-Making | |
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| The Anti-Social Family | |
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| Love Is Not The Problem | |
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