The Law of Marriage and Legitimacy
Author: Hugh Weightman
Publisher:
Published: 1871
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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Minimizing Marriage
Author: Elizabeth Brake
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0199774137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses fundamental questions about marriage in moral and political philosophy. It examines promise, commitment, care, and contract to argue that marriage is not morally transformative. It argues that marriage discriminates against other forms of caring relationships and that, legally, restrictions on entry should be minimized.
Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage
Author: Renata Grossi
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2014-09-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1925021823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the (in)visibility of romantic love in the legal discourse surrounding modern Australian marriage. It looks at how romantic love has become a core part of modernity, and a dominant part of the Western marriage discourse, and considers how the ideologies of romantic love are (or are not) replicated in the legal meaning of marriage. This examination raises two key issues. If love has become central to people’s understanding of marriage, then it is important for the legitimacy of law that love is reflected in both the content and application of the law. More fundamentally, it requires us to reconsider how we understand law, and to ask whether it is engaged with emotions, or separate from them. Along the way this book also considers the meaning of love itself in contemporary society, and asks whether love is a radical force capable of breaking down conservative meanings embedded in institutions like marriage, or whether it simply mirrors them. This book will be of interest to everyone working on love, marriage and sexuality in the disciplines of law, sociology and philosophy.
Adoption Act 1976 (UK)
Author: The Law The Law Library
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-04-18
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781717149817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdoption Act 1976 (UK) The Law Library presents the official text of the Adoption Act 1976 (UK). Updated as of March 26, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Adoption Act 1976 (UK) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1993-02-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0309048974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.
Illegitimacy
Author: Jenny Teichman
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780631128076
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Author: Lawrence Meir Friedman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780674015623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the complexities of family law and family life--including the tensions between the laws on the books and contemporary arrangements for marriage, divorce, adoption, and child rearing.
The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235)
Author: Sara Elise Phang
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9789004121553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoman soldiers were forbidden to marry during service; many formed "de facto" families. This book analyzes the evidence for this ban; the social and legal history of the soldiers' families; and the marriage ban as policy and as cultural formation.
Family Law
Author: Jonathan Herring
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 0199668523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? In this Very Short Introduction Jonathan Herring provides an insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. It also looks at the future to consider what families will look like in the years ahead, and what new dilemmas the courts may face.
What Is Marriage?
Author: Sherif Girgis
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1641771488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male–female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage as something other than the conjugal union of husband and wife is a mistake. Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book’s core argument quickly became the year’s most widely read essay on the most prominent scholarly network in the social sciences. Since then, it has been cited and debated by scholars and activists throughout the world as the most formidable defense of the tradition ever written. Now revamped, expanded, and vastly enhanced, What Is Marriage? stands poised to meet its moment as few books of this generation have. Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George offer a devastating critique of the idea that equality requires redefining marriage. They show why both sides must first answer the question of what marriage really is. They defend the principle that marriage, as a comprehensive union of mind and body ordered to family life, unites a man and a woman as husband and wife, and they document the social value of applying this principle in law. Most compellingly, they show that those who embrace same-sex civil marriage leave no firm ground—none—for not recognizing every relationship describable in polite English, including polyamorous sexual unions, and that enshrining their view would further erode the norms of marriage, and hence the common good. Finally, What Is Marriage? decisively answers common objections: that the historic view is rooted in bigotry, like laws forbidding interracial marriage; that it is callous to people’s needs; that it can’t show the harm of recognizing same-sex couplings or the point of recognizing infertile ones; and that it treats a mere “social construct” as if it were natural or an unreasoned religious view as if it were rational.
