House Rules Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of the Law.

House Rules takes a hard look at the law and norms governing family life, compelling readers to rethink entrenched inequalities in familial relationships and proposing ways to approach legislative solutions.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Aloni, Erez
Other Authors: Tremblay, ReĢgine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2022.
Series:Law and Society.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Locating Norms
  • 1 The Private Lives of High-Wealth Families
  • 2 Identity Choices at the Intersections: The Inequality of Cross-Border Motherhood and What to Do about It
  • Part 2: Law's Norms
  • 3 Family Law as Expression: Financial Relief in the English Courts
  • 4 The Complex Interrelationships of Financial and Child-Related Issues in Post-separation Disputes: Gender Matters
  • Part 3: Norms' Stickiness
  • 5 Familial Ideology, Privatization, and Care Arrangements for Children in the Family Law and Child Protection Systems
  • 6 Family, Gender, and the Public/Private Divide in the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998
  • Part 4: Measuring Norms
  • 7 One Myth Leads to Another: From Ignorance of the Laws to the Presumption of Informed Choice among de Facto Spouses
  • 8 "WAR" and Other Reasons People Move In Together: Analyzing Cohabitating Relationship Progressions in British Columbia
  • Part 5: Reforming Norms
  • 9 Measuring Success of (Family) Law Reforms
  • 10 Abolishing Family Law (as We Know It)