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From father's property to children's rights : the history of child custody in the United States
Title:
From father's property to children's rights : the history of child custody in the United States
Author:
Mason, Mary Ann.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [1994]

©1994
Physical Description:
xvi, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
1. Fathers/masters: children/servants: child custody in the colonial era -- 2. From fathers' rights to mothers' love: the transformation of child custody law in the first century of the new republic, 1790-1890 -- 3. The State as superparent: the progressive era, 1890-1920 -- 4. In the best interest of the child? 1960-1990 -- 5. The ascendancy of the social sciences.
ISBN:
9780231080460
Format :
Book