Citation

Publication Date: 2011-07-02
Format: Book
Bibliography: Joanna Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman, Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life.

The story of family law in the twentieth century is complex. This was the century that said goodbye to common-law marriage and breach-of-promise lawsuits.

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