From father's property to children's rights
Subtitle: the history of child custody in the United States
By: Mary Ann Mason.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780231080477
Subjects: Custody of children -- United States -- History.
Other titles: History of child custody in the United States
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: New York : Columbia University Press, c1994. With preface to the pbk. ed.

Includes bibliographical reference (p. [195]-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Fathers/masters: children/servants: child custody in the colonial era; title: 2. From fathers' rights to mothers' love: the transformation of child custody law in the first century of the new republic, 1790-1890; title: 3. The State as superparent: the progressive era, 1890-1920; title: 4. In the best interest of the child? 1960-1990; title: 5. The ascendancy of the social sciences.