Publication Date: December 15 ISBN-10: 0735584648 ISBN-13 :978-0,735,584,648 Edition: 4
Provide a complete and concise coverage, including contemporary issues of debate, Weisberg and Appleton integrate rich interdisciplinary materials have good teaching cases, notes, and problems. Engaged in the narrative reveals the fascinating background behind the case, the students of the law on people’s lives.
The write sensitivity to issues of gender, race, class, modern family law, the fourth edition features:
– Detection coverage reflects the social diversity of the modern family;
– The development of the women’s movement, family law and frank examination;
– Children’s rights movement;
– Father rights movement;
– Domestic violence;
– Changing sexual morality;
– Non-traditional family forms;
– The development of reproductive technology;
Contemporary theme of the entire text and basic family law balance coverage – an interdisciplinary perspective; exercises of various problems, most of the organizations from actual cases and incidents, flexible adjustment or long or short courses.
Throughout, Fourth Edition update addresses the recent developments in the law to address: – abortion, domestic violence, no-fault divorce reform, paternity, adoption and assisted reproductive technology;
– Same-sex marriage, civil society groups and same-sex divorce;
– A major new case, Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, to maintain the exclusion of same-sex couples the right to marry is unconstitutional; Gonzales v. Carhart, maintaining the federal portion of the birth abortion prohibition law “constitutionality; Lawrence v Texas development related to sex;
– The recently revised “FMLA” (Family Medical Leave Act) and the Violence against Women Act (VAWA).
Fourth Edition, Weisberg Appleton modern family law “reflects the point of view of a progressive and inclusive, recognizing the diversity of today’s families how to challenge traditional legal concepts and principles.
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