Law and Families

Helen Rhoades

Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Thinking About Families and Law: The myth of state intervention in the family, Frances E. Olsen; Beyond the public/private division: law, power and the family, Nikolas Rose; Race matters: change, choice and family law at the millennium, Twila L. Perry; Family inside/out, Brenda Cossman. Part II Shaping Family Practices: Marriage and the moral bases of personal relationships, John Eeklaar and Mavis Maclean; Money and marriage: sexually transmitted debt in England, Belinda Fehlberg; The legal and moral ordering of child custody, Carol Smart; 'Waiting till father gets home': the reconstruction of fatherhood in family law, Richard Collier; 'Real' mothers for abandoned children, Katherine O'Donovan. Part III Delivering Social Justice: Financial aspects of the divorce transition in Australia: recent empirical findings, Grania Sheehan; Child support or support of children? Re-thinking 'public' and 'private' in family law, Mary Jane Mossman; Child welfare law, 'best interests of the child' ideology, and First Nations, Marlee Kline; Just family law: a basic human right of all Indian women, Archana Parashar. Part IV Resolving Family Disputes: Resolving the dilemma of difference: a critique of 'the role of private ordering in family law', Marcia Neave; Narratives of divorce, Shelley Day Sclater; Dominant discourse, professional language, and legal change in child custody decision making, Martha Fineman; Neither justice nor protection: women's experiences of post-separation violence, Cathy Humphreys and Ravi K. Thiara; Incomplete citizens: changing images of post-separation children, Felicity Kaganas and Alison Diduck; Name index.