Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law

Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law

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Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law

Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law

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Liberalization of divorce rules was sometimes frustrated by the religious beliefs of individual lawmakers and by legislative malapportionment. Conservative opposition was often strengthened by the politicians' reluctance to take bold public stands on divorce even as they quietly acceded to the pleas of individual constituents for relief from marital predicaments.

Author(s): Richard H. Chused
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1994-06-29
Pages: 243
Categories: History

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