Title: The new family and the new property /
Authors: Glendon, Mary Ann,
Date: 1981
Publisher: Butterworths ;
Physical description: xvii, 269 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: Introduction -- Part I. The new family -- Chapter 1. The attenuation of family ties: the ties that bind -- A. Circumscribing the family unit: the law of companionate marriage -- B. The bonding of the new family -- 1. The marriage bond: its centrality and closeness -- 2. Fluidity, detachability, and interchangeability -- a. Marriage -- b. Parents and children -- C. The emergence of the individual -- Chapter 2. The attenuation of family ties: the ties that support -- A. The narrowing of the circle -- B. The casualties of divorce -- 1. Spousal support -- 2. Property division -- 3. Child support -- 4. Dissolution of de facto families -- 5. Conclusion -- C. The sharing of functions -- 1. The support capacity of the new family -- 2. Old and new property -- D. Conclusion -- Part II. Families, property and law -- Chapter 3. Family law and property -- A. The transformation of family law -- B. Law to strengthen families? -- 1. Private law -- 2. Public law -- C. The "liberated" individual -- Part III. The new property -- Chapter 4. Altered patterns of legal bonding -- A. Occupational bonding -- 1. The ties that bind the job to the employee -- 2. The ties that bind the employee to the job -- B. Landlord-tenant excursus -- C. Law to make existence secure? -- D. The job as property: access, instability and ambiguity -- Chapter 5. Towards and feudalism of new property? -- A. The institutional context -- B. The transformation of private law -- C. A rational society? -- D. The iron cage and the golden chain
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Domestic relations.; Labor laws and legislation.; Property.