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Family law : a very short introduction / by Herring, Jonathan.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-116) and index.Marriage, civil partnership, and cohabitation -- Domestic violence -- Divorce -- Parents -- Children's rights -- Child abuse -- Alimony and financial orders -- Where next for family law?"What is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? [This book] gives the reader insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. It examines how laws have had to respond to social changes in family life, from rapidly rising divorce rates to surrogate mothers, and gives insight into family courts, which are required to deal with the chaos of family life and often struggle to keep up-to-date with social and scientific changes. It also looks to the future: what will families look like in the years ahead? What new dilemmas will the courts face?" --Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic relations.; Domestic relations; Domestic relations;
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Private lives : families, individuals, and the law / by Friedman, Lawrence Meir,1930-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-222) and index.Family law in context: an introduction -- Marriage and divorce in the nineteenth century -- Marriage and divorce in the modern world -- Who are our children? Adoption, custody, and related issues -- Privacy and the republic of choice.
Subjects: Domestic relations;
© 2004., Harvard University Press,
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The divorce papers : a novel : from the files of Sophie Diehl / by Rieger, Susan,1946-;
"The story of a high-profile, messy divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it, told solely via personal correspondence, office memos, emails, articles, and legal papers"--
Subjects: Divorce; Domestic relations; Women lawyers; Divorce settlements;
© [2014], Crown Publishers,
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Chestnut Street / by Binchy, Maeve.;
A collection of thirty-six short stories all set on Chestnut Street, a fictional street in Dublin.
Subjects: Families; Interpersonal relations; Domestic fiction.;
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Mothers who kill their children : understanding the acts of moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" / by Meyer, Cheryl L.,1959-; Oberman, Michelle.; White, Kelly.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-211) and index.Introduction: A brief cross-cultural history of infanticide -- Previous attempts to understand why mothers kill their children -- Denial of pregnancy: secret lives -- Purposeful killing: neither "mad" nor "bad" -- Maternal neglect: A search for meaning -- Abuse-related deaths -- Assistance or coercion from a partner: relations to domestic violence -- Responding to mothers who kill: toward a comprehensive rethinking of law, policy, and intervention strategies.
Subjects: Filicide.; Infanticide.; Women murderers.; Mothers; Mothers; Filicide.; Infanticide.; MeurtrieÌres.; MeÌres; MeÌres;
© c2001., New York University Press,
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Scarlett doesn't live here anymore : Southern women in the Civil War era / by Edwards, Laura F.;
Includes bibliographical references (233-264) and index.PART 1: Before. Privilege and its price -- The myth of male independence -- The dilemmas of womanhood in slavery -- -- PART 2: During. Embracing that which would destroy them -- Fighting any longer is fighting against God -- For the freedom of the colored people -- -- PART 3: After. Talking for her rights -- We is poor but we's proud -- This is new and disagreeable work to us all."Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War - a history that focuses on the women who made up the fabric of southern life before and during the war and remade themselves and their world after it."."Establishing the household as the central institution of southern society, Edwards delineates the inseparable links between domestic relations and civil and political rights in ways that highlight women's active political role throughout the nineteenth century. She draws on diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, government records, legal documents, court proceedings, and other primary sources to explore the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing South, demonstrating how family, kin, personal reputation, and social context all merged with gender, race, and class to shape what particular women could do in particular circumstances."."An ideal basic text on society in the Civil War era, Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore demonstrates how women on every step of the social ladder used the resources at their disposal to fashion their own positive identities, to create the social bonds that sustained them in difficult times, and to express powerful social critiques that helped them make sense of their lives. Throughout the period, Edwards shows, women worked actively to shape southern society in ways that fulfilled their hopes for the future."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Women; Women;
© c2000., University of Illinois Press,
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The history of the medieval world : from the conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade / by Bauer, S. Wise.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Unity: One empire, under God ; Seeking the mandate of Heaven ; An empire of the mind ; The Persian threat ; The apostate ; Earthquake and invasion ; Refounding the Kingdom ; The Catholic church -- Fractures: Excommunicated ; Cracked in two ; The sack of Rome ; One nature versus two ; Seeking a homeland ; The Gupta decline ; Northern ambitions ; The Huns ; Attila ; Orthodoxy ; The high kings ; The end of the Roman myth -- New powers: The Ostrogoths ; Byzantium ; Aspirations ; Resentment ; Elected kings ; Invasion and eruption ; The Americas ; Great and holy majesty ; Pestilence ; The heavenly sovereign ; Reunification ; The South Indian kings ; Two emperors ; The mayors of the palaces ; Gregory the Great ; The Persian crusade ; The prophet ; Tang dominance ; The tribe of faith ; Intersection ; The troubles of empire -- States and kingdoms: Law and language ; Creating the past ; The days of the empress ; Paths into Europe ; The Kailasa of the South ; Purifications ; The Abbasids ; Charlemagne ; The An Lushan rebellion ; Imperator et Augustus ; The new Sennacherib ; Castle lords and regents ; The triumph of the outsiders ; The third dynasty ; The Vikings ; Long-lived kings ; Foreign and domestic relations ; The second caliphate ; The great army of the Vikings ; Struggle for the iron crown ; Kampaku ; Basileus ; The creation of Normandy ; The kingdom of Germany ; The turn of the wheel ; The capture of Baghdad ; Three kingdoms ; Kings of England ; The baptism of the Rus -- Crusades: The holy Roman emperor ; The hardship of sacred war ; Basil the Bulgar-slayer ; Defending the mandate ; The new found land ; Schism ; Danish domination ; The Norman conquest ; The kings of Spain ; The arrival of the Turks ; The loss of the song ; Repentance at Canossa ; The call ; Fighting for Jerusalem ; Aftershocks.From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action--right thus replaces might as the engine of empire. Not just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed into the service of the state. This phenomenon--stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan--changes religion, but it also changes the state.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Middle Ages.; Civilization, Medieval.;
© ©2010., W.W. Norton,
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The military marriage manual : tactics for successful relationships / by Hill, Janelle.; Lawhorne, Cheryl,1968-; Philpott, Don,1946-;
Getting married -- Challenges -- Housing -- Counseling -- Deployments -- Wounded warriors -- Starting a family -- Finances -- Jobs.Offers advice and guidance for couples with members of the military on marriage and relationships, discussing the challenges of being in a relationship with military personnel, counseling options that are available, deployments, financial issues, domestic violence, jobs, starting a family, depression, and other related topics.
Subjects: Soldiers; Military spouses; Marriage; Married people;
© c2010., Government Institutes,
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The family : a world history / by Maynes, Mary Jo.; Waltner, Ann Beth.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-135) and index.Domestic life and human origins (to 5000 BCE) -- The birth of the gods: family in the emergence of religions (to 1000 CE) -- Ruling families: kinship at the dawn of politics (ca. 3000 BCE to 1450 CE) -- Early modern families (1400-1750) -- Families in global markets (1600-1850) -- Families in revolutionary times (1750-1920) -- Powers of life and death: families in the era of state population management (1880 to the present).Examines the ways in which differences in gender and generation have affected family relations since 10,000 BCE.
Subjects: Families;
© c2012., Oxford University Press,
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Wuthering Heights / by Brontë, Emily,1818-1848.; Nestor, Pauline.;
Includes bibliographical references.The passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Love stories.; Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Rejection (Psychology); Rural families; Foundlings;
© 2003., Penguin Books,
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