Dissolving Wedlock - 9780415032254

Taylor & Francis

Forty five percent of marriages currently end in divorce. Colin Gibson explores the effects it has had on family patterns and presents a multi-disciplinary examination of all the socio-legal consequences of family breakdown. > \nThe divorce rate has been rising significantly throughout the twentieth century. By interweaving the historical, demographic, sociological, legal, political and policy aspects of this increase, Colin Gibson explores the effects it has had on family patterns and habits. Dissolving Wedlock presents a multi-disciplinary examination of all the socio-legal consequences of family breakdown.\nDissolving Wedlock will be invaluable reading to all lecturers and students of social policy, sociology and social work as well as to professionals and lawyers working in the field of divorce. > Preface Introduction Part I Before Civil Divorce 1. Ecclesiastical influence and jurisdiction in matrimonial matters 2. Decline of the ecclesiastical courts 3. Parliamentary divors