[PDF] Marriage And Cohabitation In Contemporary Societies Areas Of Legal Social And Ethical Change An International And Interdisciplinary Study eBook

Author : International Society on Family Law
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Children
ISBN :

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"An international and interdisciplinary study."--T.p.

Author : International Society on Family Law
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Law
ISBN :

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"An international and interdisciplinary study."--T.p.

Author : Rebecca Probert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107020840

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This book is for anyone interested in the history of marriage and cohabitation, whether historian, lawyer or general reader. It is written in an accessible style, while providing a radical reassessment of existing ideas about the popularity, legal treatment and perceptions of cohabitation between 1600 and 2010.

Author : Cheris Kramarae
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0415920884

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For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.

Author : G.E. Wiersma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400968728

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1. BACKGROUND In the last ten years there has been much popular discus sion and also a great scholarly interest in the so-called "alternative lifestyles" (1). ESgecially, since the late 1J60's, a diversity of lifestyles other than the nuclear family began to emerge, according to demographic changes in household compositions during the past decade (US Bureau of Census, 1979; Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, 1930). One lifestyle, non-marital cohabitation, has increased most dra matically during the ~ast ten years and is the subject of this study. The term cohabitation will be used exclusively throughout the remainder of this study to refer to hetero sexual couples who are living together without being married legally. Despite its recent rapid increase, one should not overlook the fact that cohabitation, in comparison with legal marriage, remains an alternative practiced by a minority of the couples at any ?oint in time. For the Netherlands, it is estimated that 7 percent of all couples are living together unmarried, and 93 percent are married (Straver, 1981). This cohabitation rate is about twice as low when compared to rates in countries like Sweden and Denmark where they are 16 percent (the highest rate in Europe) and 13 percent (Trost, 1979), but still about twice as high when compared to the 3 percent estimate for the United States (Macklin, 1980).

Author : Lovemore Togarasei
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3030595234

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This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often controversially translated as ‘bridewealth’) is an entrenched practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a long tradition, of late there have been voices questioning its relevance in contemporary times while others vehemently defend the practice. This book brings together a range of scholars from different academic disciplines, national contexts, institutions, genders, and ethnic backgrounds to debate the relevance of lobola in contemporary southern African communities for gender equality.

Author : Helen Reece
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1841132152

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This book analyses the increasing impact of post-liberalism, which replaces choice with self-discovery, on general and divorce law.

Author : Gillian Douglas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 178225854X

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A tension lies at the heart of family law. Expressed in the language of rights and duties, it seeks to impose enforceable obligations on individuals linked to each other by ties that are usually regarded as based on love or blood. Taking a contextual approach that draws on history, sociology and social policy as well as law and legal theory, this book examines the concept of obligation as it has been developed in family law and the difficulties the law has had in translating it from a theoretical and ideological concept into the basis of enforceable actions and duties. Increasingly, the idea of commitment has been offered as the key organising principle for the recognition of family relationships, often as a means of rebutting claims that family ties are becoming attenuated, but the meaning and scope of this concept have not been explored. The book traces how the notion of commitment is understood and how far it has come to be used as a rationale for imposing the core legal obligations which underpin care and caring within families.