Exploring Norms and Family Laws Across the Globe

Melissa L. Breger

doi:10.5771/9781793618368

Summary

Bringing together some of the world’s leading family law scholars, as well as bright and emerging minds in the field of global family law, this book explores the differences and commonalities in the conceptualization and legal treatment of families throughout different legal traditions. Each chapter delves into topics integral to family law jurisprudence and serves as a novel examination into a deep slice of family law. Together, the four parts and sixteen chapters create a melodious and intriguing examination of groundbreaking and cutting-edge areas of law in the realm of the family. The four parts primarily focus upon a major family law topic with the authors examining the laws across jurisdictions, cross-nationally, or in some cases intra-jurisdictionally. It is through this comparative lens that we see how family law concepts are woven into the fabric of overall society around the globe. This book is of interest to family law, international law, sociology, and socio-legal scholars.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1835-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1836-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 396
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. Comparative Demography: The Rate of Cohabitation Is Increasing Globally No access
    2. Changing Norms No access
    3. Legal Standards No access
  3. 1. 1. Contracts No access
      2. Opt-in No access
  4. Responses Outside of the United States No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Traditional Models of Civil Partnership Reform No access
  3. The Emergence of a New Reform Pattern in England and Wales No access
  4. Embracing Family Recognition Beyond Marriage No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Position of Islamic Marriages Under English Law No access
  3. (Non-)Recognition of Foreign Islamic Marriages Under English Law No access
  4. 1. “Nikah-Only” Marriages No access
    2. Proxy Marriages No access
    3. Non-Age No access
    4. Polygamy No access
  5. Themes Emerging from the Case Law No access
  6. 1. Non-recognition of a Foreign Marriage No access
    2. Non-recognition of a Foreign Child Marriage No access
    3. Non-recognition of a Religious Marriage No access
  7. Themes Emerging from the ECtHR No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Matrimonial Guardianship in Muslim Law and Its Application in Algeria Before Colonization No access
  3. The Evolution of the Law on Matrimonial Guardianship from the Second Half of the 19th Century to the Present Day No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. A Priority for Permanency No access
    2. A Growing Spectrum of Permanency Options No access
    3. Connection with Kinship Care No access
    4. Racial Disparities No access
    5. Legal Structure No access
  3. 1. More Long-Term Foster Care, Rare Adoptions No access
    2. Concerns with the Status Quo—And Modest Reform Trends No access
    3. Kinship Care No access
    4. Expanding Racial and Ethnic Diversity No access
    5. 1. Norway No access
      2. Sweden No access
  4. Discussion: A Comparative Analysis and Lessons Each Category Can Take from the Other No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Traditional Adoption in the United States No access
  3. Adoption Norms in Other Cultures No access
  4. Increased Openness in U.S. Adoption No access
  5. Adoption Across Borders: When Norms Collide No access
  6. International Adoption Norms as Expressed in Treaties and International Agreements No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Radical Law-in-Action Related to Child Custody and Support No access
  3. The Illegitimate Discourse of Israeli Fathers’ Groups No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. Human Rights Treaties No access
    2. Other Nations’ Domestic Laws No access
  3. 1. 1. The Child Maltreatment Piece of the Homeschooling Picture No access
    2. The Law No access
    3. 1. Positions and Tactics of the Homeschooling Movement No access
  4. The Way Forward No access
  5. Developing a Constitutional Duty to Educate and Protect Children in the United States No access
  6. Recommended Restrictions No access
  7. Conclusion: A New Political and Legal Reality No access
  8. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Psychological Effects of Corporal Punishment Upon Children No access
  3. 1. The Impact of the CRC No access
  4. The Interdisciplinary Research Team and the Data Set Examining Corporal Punishment in the Home in Every Country No access
  5. Social Norms Theory, Re-Norming, and Norm Cascades No access
  6. Trends in Our Research No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. Social Sciences Data/Evidence No access
    2. Interpersonal Violence No access
    3. Structural Violence No access
    4. Children No access
    5. Poverty No access
    6. The Rights-Poverty-Violence Framework No access
    7. Associations between Structural and Interpersonal VAC No access
  3. The CRC and the Rights-Poverty-Violence Framework No access
  4. English Law Regarding VAC vis-à-vis the Rights-Poverty-Violence Framework No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Why Should We Listen to Children? No access
  3. Legislative Recognition of Children’s Views No access
  4. 1. Australia No access
    2. England and Wales No access
    3. Scotland No access
    4. Canada (Ontario) No access
    5. New Zealand No access
  5. Discussion No access
  6. Conclusion: The Role of Judges in Influencing Social Norms No access
  7. Notes No access
4. 1. Reality and Definition No access
  2. International Norms on the Education of Disabled Children No access
  3. Policies for the Education of Disabled Children from around the Globe—The Rhetoric No access
  4. Research Outcomes of Disabled Children in Education—The Realities No access
  5. Making Norms on the Rights of Disabled Children to Education a Reality No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Justifications for Ending or Maintaining Anonymity No access
  3. 1. The Prospective Approach No access
    2. The Self-Regulation Approach No access
    3. The Retrospective Approach No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Legal Recognition in Asia No access
  3. Marriage and Divorce No access
  4. Legal Recognition in Europe No access
  5. Transgender Family Rights No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
3. 1. 1. Ethiopia’s Historical Past and Present Context No access
  2. Normative Pluralism in Ethiopia: An Overview in a Context No access
  3. 1. Notion and Normative Underpinnings of Family No access
    2. Sources of Family Relationship No access
    3. 1. Family as a Private Institution No access
      2. Family as a Public Institution No access
      3. Family as a Holistic Institution No access
  4. 1. 1. Attributes of Marriage No access
    2. 1. Forms of a Valid Marriage No access
      2. Registration of Marriage No access
    3. 1. Free and Full Consent No access
      2. Marriageable Age No access
      3. Grounds of Impediments No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Compounded Deprivations and the Intersection of Child Welfare and Mass Incarceration No access
  3. Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Incarceration, Children, and Families No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 321 - 322
Bibliography No access Pages 323 - 374
Index No access Pages 375 - 390
About the Contributors No access Pages 391 - 396