Dissolving Wedlock

✍ Scribed by Dr Colin Gibson, Colin Gibson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The divorce rate has been rising significantly throughout the twentieth century. By interweaving the historical, demographic, sociological, legal, political and policy aspects of this increase, Colin Gibson explores the effects it has had on family patterns and habits. Dissolving Wedlock presents a multi-disciplinary examination of all the socio-legal consequences of family breakdown. Dissolving Wedlock will be invaluable reading to all lecturers and students of social policy, sociology and social work as well as to professionals and lawyers working in the field of divorce.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Ecclesiastical influence and jurisdiction in matrimonial matters......Page 20
Decline of the ecclesiastical courts......Page 31
Parliamentary divorce......Page 38
The coming of judicial divorce......Page 56
Constraints of poverty and gender......Page 78
Between the wars......Page 96
From matrimonial offence to irretrievable breakdown......Page 110
Changing family patterns......Page 124
The resort to divorce: the social evidence......Page 142
The reconstituted family......Page 161
Divorce: the legal evidence......Page 180
Family breakdown, protection and the law......Page 194
Accounting for family support......Page 209
Marriage breakdown in the 1990s......Page 223
Notes......Page 239
Bibliography......Page 242
Name index......Page 251
Subject index......Page 254