The changing family
Subtitle: international perspectives on the family and family law
By: edited by John Eekelaar and Thandabantu Nhlapo ; with an introduction by Albie Sachs.
Contributors: Nhlapo, Ronald Thandabantu.; Eekelaar, John.; International Society on Family Law. World Conference
Publisher: Hart Pub.; Distributed in the U.S. by Northwestern University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
Subjects: Domestic relations; Family; Domestic relations -- Africa; Family -- Africa; Social norms
Other titles: Changing family :
Description: Increasing recognition of different family structures has posed dilemmas for family law and policy throughout the world. This volume, looks at how family law in countries with a wide variety of different backgrounds has responded to these problems.
Notes: Based on the theme of the 9th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law, held in Durban, South Africa, in July 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.