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Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
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Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America Paperback - 1988 - 9th Edition

by Michael Grossberg

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From the publisher

Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished male authority, increased women's and children's rights, and fixed more clearly the state's responsibilities in family affairs. Grossberg further illustrates why many basic principles of this distinctive and powerful new body of law -- antiabortion and maternal biases in child custody -- remained in effect well into the twentieth century.

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The "foundation of national morality must be laid in private families," declared Revolutionary lawyer and future president John Adams in 1778.

From the rear cover

Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption and rights for illegitimate children.

Details

  • Title Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Author Michael Grossberg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 9th
  • Edition 9
  • Pages 436
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Publication date 1988-08-01
  • ISBN 9780807842256 / 0807842257
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 5.94 x 1.13 in (22.89 x 15.09 x 2.87 cm)
  • Reading level 1510
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 84022107
  • Dewey Decimal Code 346.730

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