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Title

The changing family : international perspectives on the family and family law / edited by John Eekelaar and Thandabantu Nhlapo ; with an introduction by Albie Sachs.

Publication

Oxford, UK : Hart Pub. ; Evanston, Ill. : Distributed in the U.S. by Northwestern University Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Eekelaar, John
• Nhlapo, Ronald Thandabantu.
• International Society on Family Law. World Conference (9th : Durban, South Africa)
• International Society on Family Law. World Conference (9th : 1997 : Durban, South Africa)

Description

xix, 634 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Increasing recognition of different family structures has posed dilemmas for family law and policy throughout the world. This volume, looks at how family law in countries with a wide variety of different backgrounds has responded to these problems.

Subject

• Domestic relations > Congresses
• Families > Congresses
• Domestic relations
• Families
• Domestic relations > Africa
• Families > Africa
• Social norms
• Families
• Families > Africa

Note

• Based on proceedings of the 9th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law, Durban, South Africa, July 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Social change in Europe and its impact on family structures / Franz Rothenbacher -- The changing pattern of family structure in Nigeria : issues, problems and strategies for family support / Oluwatoyin A. Ipaye -- Long-term developments in family law in Western Europe : an explanation / Harry Willekens -- The new codification of Russian family law / Olga Khazova -- The development of Japanese family law from 1898 to 1997 and its relationship to social and political change / Yukiko Matsushima -- The relationship between social change and family law in Korea / Mi-Kyung Cho -- Ireland : the family and the law in a divided land / Kerry O'Halloran -- Should and can family law influence social behaviour? / Anders Agell -- Family law in Namibia : the challenge of customary and constitutional law / M.O. Hinz -- Changing families and changing concepts : reforming the language of family law / Andrew Bainham -- The proposed abolition of de facto unions in Tanzania : a case of sailing against the social current / Bart Rwezaura -- Marriage by affidavit : developing alternative laws on cohabitation in Kenya / Janet Kabeberi-Macharia and Celestine Nyamu -- Why I can't teach customary law / Julie E. Stewart -- Reducing discretion in family law / John Dewar -- Equality or inequality within the family? : ideology, reality and the law's response / Rebecca Bailey-Harris -- The law and morality of support in the wider Family in Germany and Tanzania : changing perceptions of family forms / Chris Jones-Pauly -- Cultural pluralism and the rights of the child / Michael Freeman -- Family law in Aotearoa/New Zealand : facing ideologies / William R. Atkin and Graeme W. Austin -- African customary family law in South Africa : a legacy of many pasts / Jeanne Y. de Koker -- Language, culture and the detritus of apartheid : understanding and overcoming secondary, systematic abuse in South African child care proceedings / F. Noel Zaal -- Signposts on the road to equality : towards the new millennium for parents, children and families in South Africa / Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Belinda van Heerden -- Constitutional interpretation of the "best interests" principle in South Africa in relation to custody / Nazeem Goolam -- Same-sex marriage and the limits of legal pluralism / Lynne D. Wardle -- Cohabitation and registered partnership in Scandinavia : the legal position of homosexuals / Ingrid Lund-Andersen -- From closet to constitution : the South African gay family rights odyssey / Elsa Steyn -- Parental rights and social responsibility in American child protection law / Sanford N. Katz -- The constitutionalisation of the family in Poland / Jacek Kurczewski -- Constitutional interpretation and the re-constitution of the family in the United States and South Africa / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse -- The child's right to parental and family care / J.A. Robinson -- Ways of seeing : "lawyering" for a new society in South Africa / June Sinclair -- Defending and protecting gender equality and the family under a decidedly undecided constitution in Zimbabwe / Welshman Ncube -- Meaningless gestures? : African nations and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women / Fareda Banda -- The nuclear family : who are the parents? / Jaap E. Doek -- Families or households? : the importance of social parenthood / John Eekelaar and Mavis Maclean -- Child welfare and adoption in modern Greek law / Efie Kounougeri-Manoledaki -- Adoption and child welfare in Japanese law : has the special adoption law failed? / Fumio Tokotani -- The gift/donation model versus the contract/services model : the changing face of adoption in England and Wales / N.V. Lowe -- The effect of social change on family structure : mobility issues in the Canadian context / Christine Davies -- African Family law under an undecided constitution : the challenge for law reform in South Africa / Thandabantu Nhlapo.

ISBN

190136299X

OCLC

• 40225249
• SCSB-10314687

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library