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From father's property to children's rights : the history of child custody in the United States / Mary Ann Mason.
- Title
- From father's property to children's rights : the history of child custody in the United States / Mary Ann Mason.
- Author
- Mason, Mary Ann.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | KF547 .M37 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 237 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Custody of children > United States > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical reference (p. [195]-223) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Fathers/masters: children/servants: child custody in the colonial era -- 2. From fathers' rights to mothers' love: the transformation of child custody law in the first century of the new republic, 1790-1890 -- 3. The State as superparent: the progressive era, 1890-1920 -- 4. In the best interest of the child? 1960-1990 -- 5. The ascendancy of the social sciences.
- ISBN
- 0231080468 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^93034524^
- OCLC
- 28845986
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library