Family Law in a Changing America 2nd Edition By Douglas NeJaime, Richard Banks, Joanna Grossman, Suzanne Kim
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The law textbook Family Law in a Changing America (2nd Edition), co-authored by Douglas NeJaime and Ralph Richard Banks, organizes family regulation into two foundational pillars: adult relationships and parent-child relationships. Decentering the traditional marital heterosexual family framework, it analyzes how race, class, gender, and economic inequality reshape modern household structures. [1, 2]
The specific topics covered in the Second Edition include the following core themes:
Adult Relationships & Family Formation
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- Declining Marriage Rates: Analysis of changing marriage trends, highlighting distinct statistical shifts based on race and socioeconomic status. [1]
- Nonmarital Cohabitation: The legal status, protections, and contractual challenges faced by unmarried couples living together. [1]
- Same-Sex Couples: Legal developments regarding marriage equality, discrimination, and domestic partnerships. [1]
- Gender and Labor: The friction between women's modern educational/career advancements and the persistence of gendered domestic labor structures. [1]
Parent-Child Relationships & Family Regulation
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- Nonmarital Parenting: The legal rights, responsibilities, and custody issues impacting parents who are not married.
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Legal challenges to traditional biological definitions of parentage through surrogacy, IVF, and sperm/egg donation.
- The Child Welfare System: Detailed analysis of state-run child protective frameworks, system biases, and escalating contemporary debates over abolition.
- Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Comprehensive, updated guidance regarding tribal sovereignty and the specific placement regulations for Native American children.
- Reproductive Justice: Expanded legal frameworks addressing abortion access, bodily autonomy, and maternal healthcare inequities. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Societal Pressures & Systemic Disparities
- Mass Incarceration: How criminal justice enforcement alters custody rights, breaks apart family systems, and exacerbates racial inequities.
- Privatization of Care: The legal and economic shifts moving caregiving responsibilities from public safety nets directly onto individual family structures.
- Multimodal Legal Interpretation: Comparative evaluation of family law as interpreted through common law, statutes, and constitutional principles.
- Legal Actor Roles: Insight into how judges, legislative bodies, expert witnesses, social workers, and lawyers interact to drive or stall legal changes. [1, 2]
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