A. BACKGROUND TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; 1. How to Give the Present a Past: Family Law in the United States: 1950-2000; 2. Changing Family Patterns in England and wales Over the Past Fifty Years; 3. Century of the American Family; 4. Family Policy in the Post-War Period; 5. The Evolution of Family Policy in the United States after the Second World War; 6. English Family Law Since The Second World War; B. ESTABLISHING THE FAMILY; 7. The Shadowlands: The Regulation of Human Reproduction in the United States; 8. The Legal Regulation of Infertility Treatment in Britain; 9. Parenthood in the United States; 10. Marriage, Cohabitation, and Parenthood: From Contract to Status?; 11. Marriage: An Institution in Transition and Redefinition; 12. The Constitutionalization of American Family Law: The Case of the Right to Marry; 13. Dual Systems of Adoption in the United States; 14. English Adoption Law: Past, Present, and Future; C. REGULATING AND REORGANIZING THE FAMILY; 15. Divorce in the United States; 16. Divorce in England 1950-2000: A Moral Tale; 17. The Finacial Incidents of family Dissolution; 18. Post-Divorce Financial Obligations; 19. The Status of Children: A Story of Emerging Rights; 20. Disputing Children; 21. The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at Century's End: The American Experience; 22. Violence Against Women in the family; D. THE FAMILY AND GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES; 23. A Forum for Every Fuss: The Growth of Court Services and ADR Treatments for Family Law Cases in the United States; 24. Access to Justice for Families in Post-War Britain; 25. Child Wefare Policy and Practice in the United States from 1950 to 2000; 26. From Curtis to Waterhouse: State Care and Child Protection in the UK 1945-2000; 27. The Hague Children's Conventions: The Internationalization of Child Law; E. EPILOGUES; 28. Individual Rights and Family Relationships; 29. The End of an Era?
