From Father's Property to Children's Rights : The History of Child Custody in the United States - Mary Ann Mason

From Father's Property to Children's Rights

The History of Child Custody in the United States

By: Mary Ann Mason

Hardcover | 16 June 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Shows that attention to child welfare today is not as consistent as we might assume. [Mason's] evidence reveals a system struggling to find a clear path through conflicting political and social interests while the best interests of the child are often ignored... But what are the best interests of the child? How should courts proceed when children's interests conflict with those of their parents or even of the state?... Such questions become intractable in a society that has lost all consensus on what family, parenthood, and childhood mean. Mason has no easy answers, but her history of custody law holds a mirror up to a society that sorely needs to look honestly at its treatment of children. Boston Book Review

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