- The Battle for Children
- Sarah Fishman
- The Battle for Children links two major areas of historical inquiry: crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on impressive archival research, Fishman reveals the impact of the Vichy regime on one of history's most silent groups--children--and offers enlightening new information about the Vichy administration.
- Hardcover 2002
- Man and Wife in America
- Hendrik Hartog
- Exploring a century and a half of American marriage, Henrik Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage in the nineteenth-century. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations, and how individuals manipulated the rules of the American states to fit their needs. Hartog shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Place of Families
- Linda C. McClain
- Arguing that family life helps create the virtues and character required for citizenship, McClain shows that the connection between family self-government and democratic self-government does not require the deep-laid gender inequality that has historically accompanied it. McClain argues for a political theory of the family that embraces equality, defends rights as facilitating responsibility, and supports families in ways that respect men's and women's capacities for self-government.
- Hardcover 2006
- Private Lives
- Lawrence M. Friedman
- Drawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the complexities of family law and family life--including the tensions between the laws on the books and contemporary arrangements for marriage, divorce, adoption, and child rearing.
- Hardcover 2005
- Rethinking Juvenile Justice
- Elizabeth S. Scott
- Laurence Steinberg
- What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development. Although adolescents are not children, they are also not fully responsible adults.
- Hardcover 2008
- What's Wrong with Children's Rights
- Martin Guggenheim
- From foster care to adoption to visitation rights and beyond, Guggenheim offers a trenchant analysis of the most significant debates in the children's rights movement, particularly those that treat children's interests as antagonistic to those of their parents. Guggenheim argues that "children's rights" can serve as a screen for the interests of adults, who may have more to gain than the children for whom they claim to speak.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007