From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States by Mary Ann Mason
-- Judith Wallerstein
From Father's Property to Children's Rights
Summary
Combining historical and legal scholarship, this is an analysis of the history of child custody in the USA from colonial times to the present day. It draws on history to illuminate contemporary issues, offering a rich perspective on the historical relationship of children to their parents.
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Shows that attention to child welfare today is not as consistent as we might assume. [Mason's] evidence reveals a system struggling to find a clear path through conflicting political and social interests while the best interests of the child are often ignored... But what are the best interests of the child? How should courts proceed when children's interests conflict with those of their parents or even of the state?... Such questions become intractable in a society that has lost all consensus on what family, parenthood, and childhood mean. Mason has no easy answers, but her history of custody law holds a mirror up to a society that sorely needs to look honestly at its treatment of children. Boston Book Review
About Mary Ann Mason
Mary Ann Mason is Associate Professor of Law and Social Welfare at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Equality Trap, coauthor of Why Kids Lie, and coeditor of Debating Children's Lives: Current Controversies on Children and Adolescents.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Fathers/Masters: Children/Servants: Child Custody in the Colonial Era 2. From Fathers' Rights to Mothers' Love: The Transformation of Child Custody Law in the First Century of the New Republic, 1790-1890 3. The State as Superparent: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920 4. In the Best Interest of the Child? 1960-1990 5. The Ascendancy of the Social Sciences
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CIN0231080468G
9780231080460
0231080468
From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States by Mary Ann Mason
Used - Good
Hardback
Columbia University Press
19940616
256
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