Sarah Harper
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- July 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199251162
- eISBN:
- 9780191602740
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199251169.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter examines the impact of contemporary American family structure on the ageing process. It is shown that mature Americans will have increasingly heterogeneous family histories and statues. ...
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This chapter examines the impact of contemporary American family structure on the ageing process. It is shown that mature Americans will have increasingly heterogeneous family histories and statues. Thus, the importance of family to the ageing experience will increase.Less
This chapter examines the impact of contemporary American family structure on the ageing process. It is shown that mature Americans will have increasingly heterogeneous family histories and statues. Thus, the importance of family to the ageing experience will increase.
Sarah Harper
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- July 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199251162
- eISBN:
- 9780191602740
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199251169.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter examines the impact of inheritance on intergenerational relationships in the UK. There is little evidence to suggest that intergenerational relations are changing because more people ...
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This chapter examines the impact of inheritance on intergenerational relationships in the UK. There is little evidence to suggest that intergenerational relations are changing because more people have acquired significant assets to bequeath, or that children have ‘rights’ over their parents’ property. However, there is a clear distinction between ‘being given’ something and ‘having the right’ to it.Less
This chapter examines the impact of inheritance on intergenerational relationships in the UK. There is little evidence to suggest that intergenerational relations are changing because more people have acquired significant assets to bequeath, or that children have ‘rights’ over their parents’ property. However, there is a clear distinction between ‘being given’ something and ‘having the right’ to it.
Faye Mishna
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199795406
- eISBN:
- 9780199949687
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795406.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
The phenomenon of bullying is highly complex. Bullying issues span individual to societal variables, including individual characteristics and vulnerability, peer and family relationships and ...
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The phenomenon of bullying is highly complex. Bullying issues span individual to societal variables, including individual characteristics and vulnerability, peer and family relationships and dynamics, classroom and school milieu and societal values and attitudes, including stigma, and discrimination. Moreover, new forms of bullying such as cyber bullying have emerged, with unique implications for prevention and intervention. The prevalence of bullying suggests that bullying may be one of the underlying issues when youth struggle with social, emotional or academic difficulties, although bullying is likely not mentioned or even considered to be part of the presenting problem. The impact of the child or youth’s involvement in bullying, as victim or as the aggressor, might consequently go unrecognized—by the child or youth and their parents and/or by a practitioner. There is a tremendous amount of research on the prevalence, associated factors and effects of bullying; on the theoretical approaches applied to bullying; and on the evaluation of anti-bullying prevention and intervention school wide programs. This book is a compilation of relevant information on bullying. Challenges and obstacles to addressing bullying are reviewed as are practice principles to address barriers in prevention and intervention with children and youth who are bullied and who bully.Less
The phenomenon of bullying is highly complex. Bullying issues span individual to societal variables, including individual characteristics and vulnerability, peer and family relationships and dynamics, classroom and school milieu and societal values and attitudes, including stigma, and discrimination. Moreover, new forms of bullying such as cyber bullying have emerged, with unique implications for prevention and intervention. The prevalence of bullying suggests that bullying may be one of the underlying issues when youth struggle with social, emotional or academic difficulties, although bullying is likely not mentioned or even considered to be part of the presenting problem. The impact of the child or youth’s involvement in bullying, as victim or as the aggressor, might consequently go unrecognized—by the child or youth and their parents and/or by a practitioner. There is a tremendous amount of research on the prevalence, associated factors and effects of bullying; on the theoretical approaches applied to bullying; and on the evaluation of anti-bullying prevention and intervention school wide programs. This book is a compilation of relevant information on bullying. Challenges and obstacles to addressing bullying are reviewed as are practice principles to address barriers in prevention and intervention with children and youth who are bullied and who bully.
William S. Sax
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195335866
- eISBN:
- 9780199868919
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335866.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter takes a closer look at some healing rituals to see what they tell us about the relationship between persons their families. It presents several transcripts of oracular consulting, ...
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This chapter takes a closer look at some healing rituals to see what they tell us about the relationship between persons their families. It presents several transcripts of oracular consulting, including a consultation with Gaurja Mai, a high-caste oracle described in Chapter 4 and a consultation with Jamnu Baba, a lowcaste oracle living in a rather isolated location not far from Nauti. It argues that healing rituals unite what has been torn apart: the family, the village, the person. They unite the physical with the social, the social with the cosmological, and even with the spiritual.Less
This chapter takes a closer look at some healing rituals to see what they tell us about the relationship between persons their families. It presents several transcripts of oracular consulting, including a consultation with Gaurja Mai, a high-caste oracle described in Chapter 4 and a consultation with Jamnu Baba, a lowcaste oracle living in a rather isolated location not far from Nauti. It argues that healing rituals unite what has been torn apart: the family, the village, the person. They unite the physical with the social, the social with the cosmological, and even with the spiritual.
Trevor Griffiths
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199247387
- eISBN:
- 9780191714429
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199247387.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The working-class family was a subject of recurrent concern through the 19th century. Seen by contemporaries as one of the essential building blocks of a morally healthy society, it had been subject ...
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The working-class family was a subject of recurrent concern through the 19th century. Seen by contemporaries as one of the essential building blocks of a morally healthy society, it had been subject to fundamental stresses as a consequence of the structural changes associated with industrialisation. This was thought to have weakened kinship ties and a separation of gender roles which discouraged close attachments between husband and wife. An alternative view is that, far from undermining the kinship tie, the separation of home and work under industrial capitalism had the effect of consolidating family relationships. Family unity rested on a sense of mutual dependence, enforced by recurrent crises. This chapter examines the standard of living attained by working class families in Britain during the years 1880-1930, focusing on the coal and cotton industries in Lancashire. The experience of women as wives and mothers is considered.Less
The working-class family was a subject of recurrent concern through the 19th century. Seen by contemporaries as one of the essential building blocks of a morally healthy society, it had been subject to fundamental stresses as a consequence of the structural changes associated with industrialisation. This was thought to have weakened kinship ties and a separation of gender roles which discouraged close attachments between husband and wife. An alternative view is that, far from undermining the kinship tie, the separation of home and work under industrial capitalism had the effect of consolidating family relationships. Family unity rested on a sense of mutual dependence, enforced by recurrent crises. This chapter examines the standard of living attained by working class families in Britain during the years 1880-1930, focusing on the coal and cotton industries in Lancashire. The experience of women as wives and mothers is considered.
Dan Markel, Jennifer M. Collins, and Ethan J. Leib
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195380064
- eISBN:
- 9780199855308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380064.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter presents a normative framework for analyzing whether and how family ties burdens can be justified. First, it explains why this book adopts a defendant-centered perspective despite the ...
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This chapter presents a normative framework for analyzing whether and how family ties burdens can be justified. First, it explains why this book adopts a defendant-centered perspective despite the fact that when other perspectives are introduced, family ties burdens could be thought of as bringing benefits to the family as an institution or to particular family members other than the defendant. It then revisits some of the normative costs of family ties benefits explored earlier in the book to ascertain whether any retain applicability in the context of family ties burdens. Finally, the chapter highlights the voluntary caregiving feature seen in the structure of many family ties burdens.Less
This chapter presents a normative framework for analyzing whether and how family ties burdens can be justified. First, it explains why this book adopts a defendant-centered perspective despite the fact that when other perspectives are introduced, family ties burdens could be thought of as bringing benefits to the family as an institution or to particular family members other than the defendant. It then revisits some of the normative costs of family ties benefits explored earlier in the book to ascertain whether any retain applicability in the context of family ties burdens. Finally, the chapter highlights the voluntary caregiving feature seen in the structure of many family ties burdens.
Dan Markel, Jennifer M. Collins, and Ethan J. Leib
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195380064
- eISBN:
- 9780199855308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380064.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter analyzes the various family ties burdens identified in Chapter 4. It offers a basis for how the normative framework in Chapter 5 contributes to a more comprehensive accounting when ...
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This chapter analyzes the various family ties burdens identified in Chapter 4. It offers a basis for how the normative framework in Chapter 5 contributes to a more comprehensive accounting when analyzing each family ties burden. The framework recommends caution about the bulk of the family ties burdens that have been identified and urges creativity in redesigning these burdens to make them less discriminatory.Less
This chapter analyzes the various family ties burdens identified in Chapter 4. It offers a basis for how the normative framework in Chapter 5 contributes to a more comprehensive accounting when analyzing each family ties burden. The framework recommends caution about the bulk of the family ties burdens that have been identified and urges creativity in redesigning these burdens to make them less discriminatory.
Marguerite W. Dupree
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204008
- eISBN:
- 9780191676079
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204008.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This study analyzes how people both create and adapt to the process of industrialization. It offers a case-study of the Potteries, which both complements and in some respects challenges studies of ...
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This study analyzes how people both create and adapt to the process of industrialization. It offers a case-study of the Potteries, which both complements and in some respects challenges studies of family structure in other areas during the nineteenth century. The book focuses on family relationships — between husbands and wives, parents and children, individuals and their wider kin network — not in isolation, but in the context of the workplace and of other institutions within the community. She reveals the flexibility of nuclear families with regard to both work and welfare, and highlights the key role of women in shaping the responses of families to their circumstances. Her approach combines demography with social history to offer many valuable insights into industrialization and its impact on family life.Less
This study analyzes how people both create and adapt to the process of industrialization. It offers a case-study of the Potteries, which both complements and in some respects challenges studies of family structure in other areas during the nineteenth century. The book focuses on family relationships — between husbands and wives, parents and children, individuals and their wider kin network — not in isolation, but in the context of the workplace and of other institutions within the community. She reveals the flexibility of nuclear families with regard to both work and welfare, and highlights the key role of women in shaping the responses of families to their circumstances. Her approach combines demography with social history to offer many valuable insights into industrialization and its impact on family life.
Rivkah Zim
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691161808
- eISBN:
- 9781400852093
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691161808.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter considers the writings of Thomas More and Antonio Gramsci. It demonstrates some of the similarities in the political and intellectual methods that generated their prison writing and ...
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This chapter considers the writings of Thomas More and Antonio Gramsci. It demonstrates some of the similarities in the political and intellectual methods that generated their prison writing and helped to create their posthumous reputations. These conceptual changes were partly owing to a shared heritage of classical learning that conditioned how their thought processes are reflected in their forms of expression. The mental habits of both polemicists were formed by their literary training in dialectic: they each made creative use of contrast rather than comparison or similitude. In prison these tendencies were exacerbated, as different forms of dialogue and dialectic enabled each writer to reassess the ideas for which he was being persecuted and to sustain his resolve and humanity in family relationships. More's and Gramsci's prison writings therefore engage with existential themes and the politics of authority, yet at the same time they reflect the warmth and importance of family relationships in the dialogic forms of personal correspondence. Their prison writings have been crucial to the political impact of their lives.Less
This chapter considers the writings of Thomas More and Antonio Gramsci. It demonstrates some of the similarities in the political and intellectual methods that generated their prison writing and helped to create their posthumous reputations. These conceptual changes were partly owing to a shared heritage of classical learning that conditioned how their thought processes are reflected in their forms of expression. The mental habits of both polemicists were formed by their literary training in dialectic: they each made creative use of contrast rather than comparison or similitude. In prison these tendencies were exacerbated, as different forms of dialogue and dialectic enabled each writer to reassess the ideas for which he was being persecuted and to sustain his resolve and humanity in family relationships. More's and Gramsci's prison writings therefore engage with existential themes and the politics of authority, yet at the same time they reflect the warmth and importance of family relationships in the dialogic forms of personal correspondence. Their prison writings have been crucial to the political impact of their lives.
Maureen Duffy and Len Sperry
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195380019
- eISBN:
- 9780199932764
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380019.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter focuses on family and social relationships as they are impacted by the experiences of mobbing and bullying, whether those experiences are school- or workplace-based. It is proposed that ...
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This chapter focuses on family and social relationships as they are impacted by the experiences of mobbing and bullying, whether those experiences are school- or workplace-based. It is proposed that there is an additive effect between health consequences suffered as a result of mobbing and their impact on family life and social relationships—the more severe the health consequences, the greater the impact on family life and on social relationships. Additionally, this chapter includes a detailed discussion of the range of possible individual responses to mobbing episodes, including individual neurophysiological responses, and looks at how those individual responses interact within family and social relationships. The potential scale and range of mobbing-related losses in both school and workplace mobbing is presented and discussed. Vignettes and examples that illustrate the impact of mobbing on family life and social relationships at work and school are provided.Less
This chapter focuses on family and social relationships as they are impacted by the experiences of mobbing and bullying, whether those experiences are school- or workplace-based. It is proposed that there is an additive effect between health consequences suffered as a result of mobbing and their impact on family life and social relationships—the more severe the health consequences, the greater the impact on family life and on social relationships. Additionally, this chapter includes a detailed discussion of the range of possible individual responses to mobbing episodes, including individual neurophysiological responses, and looks at how those individual responses interact within family and social relationships. The potential scale and range of mobbing-related losses in both school and workplace mobbing is presented and discussed. Vignettes and examples that illustrate the impact of mobbing on family life and social relationships at work and school are provided.
Dan Markel, Jennifer M. Collins, and Ethan J. Leib
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195380064
- eISBN:
- 9780199855308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380064.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter applies the normative framework in Chapter 2 to a number of the family ties benefits discussed in Chapter 1. It examines how some of the benefits from Chapter 1 fare under the normative ...
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This chapter applies the normative framework in Chapter 2 to a number of the family ties benefits discussed in Chapter 1. It examines how some of the benefits from Chapter 1 fare under the normative approach. It briefly explores how evidentiary privileges, harboring fugitive exemptions, violence within the family, pretrial release, sentencing, and prison practices should be analyzed in light of the normative framework. In most cases, the framework adds new insights into how policymakers, judges, and citizens should think about family ties benefits.Less
This chapter applies the normative framework in Chapter 2 to a number of the family ties benefits discussed in Chapter 1. It examines how some of the benefits from Chapter 1 fare under the normative approach. It briefly explores how evidentiary privileges, harboring fugitive exemptions, violence within the family, pretrial release, sentencing, and prison practices should be analyzed in light of the normative framework. In most cases, the framework adds new insights into how policymakers, judges, and citizens should think about family ties benefits.
Marianne Takas and Rebecca L. Hegar
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195109405
- eISBN:
- 9780199865789
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195109405.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
This chapter discusses the impact of the new status of “kinship adoption” on family relationships. It reviews how the law regulates parent/child relationships. It argues that kinship adoption could ...
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This chapter discusses the impact of the new status of “kinship adoption” on family relationships. It reviews how the law regulates parent/child relationships. It argues that kinship adoption could be an effective solution when it is desired by all parties that the child maintain some level of relationship with one or both birth parents after adoption by a relative, family friend, or foster parent.Less
This chapter discusses the impact of the new status of “kinship adoption” on family relationships. It reviews how the law regulates parent/child relationships. It argues that kinship adoption could be an effective solution when it is desired by all parties that the child maintain some level of relationship with one or both birth parents after adoption by a relative, family friend, or foster parent.
Dan Markel, Jennifer M. Collins, and Ethan J. Leib
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195380064
- eISBN:
- 9780199855308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380064.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter provides an overview of the multiple sites in which a defendant's family status is used as a basis for extending a benefit to that person within the criminal justice system. It explores ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the multiple sites in which a defendant's family status is used as a basis for extending a benefit to that person within the criminal justice system. It explores how jurisdictions offer evidentiary privileges and other exemptions affecting evidence gathering that constrain the state from intruding into familial relationships. It then describes the efforts by some states to shield from prosecution family members who harbor fugitives from law enforcement officials. It also surveys family ties benefits associated with violence in the family, pretrial release, sentencing, and prison administration.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the multiple sites in which a defendant's family status is used as a basis for extending a benefit to that person within the criminal justice system. It explores how jurisdictions offer evidentiary privileges and other exemptions affecting evidence gathering that constrain the state from intruding into familial relationships. It then describes the efforts by some states to shield from prosecution family members who harbor fugitives from law enforcement officials. It also surveys family ties benefits associated with violence in the family, pretrial release, sentencing, and prison administration.
Dan Markel, Jennifer M. Collins, and Ethan J. Leib
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195380064
- eISBN:
- 9780199855308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380064.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter shifts from the descriptive to the normative, as it considers the factors that should help determine whether a particular accommodation of family interests by the criminal justice system ...
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This chapter shifts from the descriptive to the normative, as it considers the factors that should help determine whether a particular accommodation of family interests by the criminal justice system is an appropriate policy choice. It argues that a presumption against family ties benefits is warranted when considering a potential policy in the criminal justice system that confers upon family members specific perquisites because most family ties benefits implicate concerns about patriarchy, accuracy, equality, and the creation of crime, because not every family ties benefit triggers all of these concerns. The bare proposal of a benefit should not be categorically rejected under this framework—it just means the benefit should undergo scrutiny.Less
This chapter shifts from the descriptive to the normative, as it considers the factors that should help determine whether a particular accommodation of family interests by the criminal justice system is an appropriate policy choice. It argues that a presumption against family ties benefits is warranted when considering a potential policy in the criminal justice system that confers upon family members specific perquisites because most family ties benefits implicate concerns about patriarchy, accuracy, equality, and the creation of crime, because not every family ties benefit triggers all of these concerns. The bare proposal of a benefit should not be categorically rejected under this framework—it just means the benefit should undergo scrutiny.
William Cornish
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199239757
- eISBN:
- 9780191705151
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239757.003.0029
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
The pragmatic, utilitarian thrust of English private international law in the 19th century meant an absence of commitment either to territory or to person as the presumptive organizing idea of the ...
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The pragmatic, utilitarian thrust of English private international law in the 19th century meant an absence of commitment either to territory or to person as the presumptive organizing idea of the whole field. Comity embodied notions of mutual respect between legal systems. This at least suggested a certain preference for applying the same law to the solution of a legal issue, and for recognizing the decisions of foreign courts, particularly where they were following a parallel course to that on which an English court would take jurisdiction over a dispute with a foreign element and were applying the law that an English court would also apply. Nonetheless the combinations of foreign and local elements could weave patterns too various to provide ready-made solutions. Nowhere was that more evident than in respect of family matters. In this sphere one can observe some growing readiness to accord some place to foreign laws and the decisions of foreign courts. This chapter on foreign elements in family disputes covers the issues of domicil, marriage and divorce, and family governance.Less
The pragmatic, utilitarian thrust of English private international law in the 19th century meant an absence of commitment either to territory or to person as the presumptive organizing idea of the whole field. Comity embodied notions of mutual respect between legal systems. This at least suggested a certain preference for applying the same law to the solution of a legal issue, and for recognizing the decisions of foreign courts, particularly where they were following a parallel course to that on which an English court would take jurisdiction over a dispute with a foreign element and were applying the law that an English court would also apply. Nonetheless the combinations of foreign and local elements could weave patterns too various to provide ready-made solutions. Nowhere was that more evident than in respect of family matters. In this sphere one can observe some growing readiness to accord some place to foreign laws and the decisions of foreign courts. This chapter on foreign elements in family disputes covers the issues of domicil, marriage and divorce, and family governance.
Marguerite W. Dupree
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204008
- eISBN:
- 9780191676079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204008.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter includes a detailed description of several aspects of family relationships that are tied to co-residence. The chapter is concerned mostly with the relationships between husbands and ...
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This chapter includes a detailed description of several aspects of family relationships that are tied to co-residence. The chapter is concerned mostly with the relationships between husbands and wives, and parents and children. It looks at the individuals and their wider kin network at different points in the family life cycle.Less
This chapter includes a detailed description of several aspects of family relationships that are tied to co-residence. The chapter is concerned mostly with the relationships between husbands and wives, and parents and children. It looks at the individuals and their wider kin network at different points in the family life cycle.
Stephen Cretney
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199280919
- eISBN:
- 9780191713170
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280919.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law, Legal History
The law governing family relationships has changed dramatically in the past one hundred years. This book is a study of the pressures and processes which led to those changes. It examines the work of ...
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The law governing family relationships has changed dramatically in the past one hundred years. This book is a study of the pressures and processes which led to those changes. It examines the work of individuals and organisations campaigning for change, and the (often ignored) influence of officials in government and (in particular) the Parliamentary draftsmen. It gives particular attention to the pressures for compromise which have so often influenced the otherwise difficult to understand legislation. The book makes extensive use of archival material and of the results of empirical research, and tells the stories of the sometimes rather eccentric individuals who have had an impact on the law-making process. Although the book focuses on the twentieth century, it reaches back into earlier periods when relevant to later developments.Less
The law governing family relationships has changed dramatically in the past one hundred years. This book is a study of the pressures and processes which led to those changes. It examines the work of individuals and organisations campaigning for change, and the (often ignored) influence of officials in government and (in particular) the Parliamentary draftsmen. It gives particular attention to the pressures for compromise which have so often influenced the otherwise difficult to understand legislation. The book makes extensive use of archival material and of the results of empirical research, and tells the stories of the sometimes rather eccentric individuals who have had an impact on the law-making process. Although the book focuses on the twentieth century, it reaches back into earlier periods when relevant to later developments.
Dan Markel, Jennifer M. Collins, and Ethan J. Leib
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195380064
- eISBN:
- 9780199855308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380064.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter identifies practices characterized as family ties burdens. These include parental responsibility laws imposing liability on parents because of crimes or misdeeds committed by their ...
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This chapter identifies practices characterized as family ties burdens. These include parental responsibility laws imposing liability on parents because of crimes or misdeeds committed by their children, omissions liability for failing to prevent harm to family members, and criminal liability for nonpayment of child or parental support. Defendants are also burdened on account of their family status when they face prosecutions for incest, adultery, and bigamy. In all seven of these instances, in the absence of the particular familial status of the defendant, the actions or omissions at issue would largely be ignored by the criminal justice system or, in some cases, treated more leniently.Less
This chapter identifies practices characterized as family ties burdens. These include parental responsibility laws imposing liability on parents because of crimes or misdeeds committed by their children, omissions liability for failing to prevent harm to family members, and criminal liability for nonpayment of child or parental support. Defendants are also burdened on account of their family status when they face prosecutions for incest, adultery, and bigamy. In all seven of these instances, in the absence of the particular familial status of the defendant, the actions or omissions at issue would largely be ignored by the criminal justice system or, in some cases, treated more leniently.
Marguerite W. Dupree
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204008
- eISBN:
- 9780191676079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204008.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the family and household patterns of members of the major occupational groups in the Potteries. It examines, analyzes, and compares the patterns of employment over a person's ...
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This chapter discusses the family and household patterns of members of the major occupational groups in the Potteries. It examines, analyzes, and compares the patterns of employment over a person's lifetime, family employment, and fertility. The patterns that emerge help illuminate the ‘relative autonomy’ or flexibility of individual and family relationships during the nineteenth century.Less
This chapter discusses the family and household patterns of members of the major occupational groups in the Potteries. It examines, analyzes, and compares the patterns of employment over a person's lifetime, family employment, and fertility. The patterns that emerge help illuminate the ‘relative autonomy’ or flexibility of individual and family relationships during the nineteenth century.
BONNIE S. McDOUGALL
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199256792
- eISBN:
- 9780191698378
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256792.003.0017
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter discusses Lu Xun and Xu Guangping's family relationships. Xu Guangping was the less inhibited of the two in family matters, referring to both her own family members and his in her 1925 ...
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This chapter discusses Lu Xun and Xu Guangping's family relationships. Xu Guangping was the less inhibited of the two in family matters, referring to both her own family members and his in her 1925 letters. Lu Xun only begins to discuss family matters with her in 1926, while she talks freely about her relatives' problems in Canton. In 1929, the main family references are to Lu Xun's mother and her feelings towards her. Remarks that are critical of family members were deleted or rewritten. The only critical remarks that were retained are about Lu Xun's sister-in-law, Hata Nobuko, but her identity was disguised. The revisions show that Lu Xun and Xu Guangping extend to relatives the same kind of personal space as they desire for themselves.Less
This chapter discusses Lu Xun and Xu Guangping's family relationships. Xu Guangping was the less inhibited of the two in family matters, referring to both her own family members and his in her 1925 letters. Lu Xun only begins to discuss family matters with her in 1926, while she talks freely about her relatives' problems in Canton. In 1929, the main family references are to Lu Xun's mother and her feelings towards her. Remarks that are critical of family members were deleted or rewritten. The only critical remarks that were retained are about Lu Xun's sister-in-law, Hata Nobuko, but her identity was disguised. The revisions show that Lu Xun and Xu Guangping extend to relatives the same kind of personal space as they desire for themselves.
