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Stepfamilies and the Law

Author : Margaret M. Mahoney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Stepfamilies and the Law written by Margaret M. Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of nontraditional families is, and continues to be, an important social and legal issue on the national agenda. For those researching and interested in one particular type of nontraditional family - stepfamilies - Mahoney's book, Stepfamilies and the Law (University of Michigan Press, 1994), continues to be an invaluable resource. Mahoney's work provides in-depth details and analysis of the state of family law in the United States and she addresses the problems of the existing family law system and the need for legislators to take action to improve it. The traditional system of family law is premised on the important assumption that the biologic mother and father have exclusive relationships with their children. Within this framework, the legal recognition of stepparent-child relationships calls into question established social and legal assumptions about the family. Stepfamily members and others seeking a broader legal definition of the family have frequently encountered stiff resistance, because their position is viewed as a threat to traditional family values. Each time the question of legal status for stepparents and stepchildren is raised, the particular lawmakers appear to balance anew all of the interests regarding stability and protection for stepfamily members, on the one hand, against reluctance to complicate the system by moving away from the preference for the nuclear family. Different weight has been assigned to these competing values, depending upon the particular legal context and the philosophical disposition of the decision-maker. The overall result of this process is an unsettling lack of consistency from issue to issue and from state to state in the legal definition of the stepfamily. Still, it is fair to summarize the current law as denying legal recognition to stepfamilies, subject to a number of specific judicial and legislative exceptions in the laws of each state. The increasing number of individuals who are living in nontraditional families, especially stepfamilies, is necessarily changing the way in which Americans think about the family. For lawmakers, the task of translating these social realities into a responsive system of family laws in the future is a challenging one. Only when this challenge has been met will the basic goals of the family law system be realized for the families of the twenty-first century.

Queer Stepfamilies

Author : Katie L. Acosta
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479800953
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Queer Stepfamilies written by Katie L. Acosta and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the social and legal experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer stepparent families Lesbian, bisexual, and queer families formed after the dissolution of a marriage face a range of obstacles. In Queer Stepfamilies, Katie L. Acosta offers a wealth of insight into their complex experiences as they negotiate parenting among multiple parents and family-building in a world not designed to meet their needs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Acosta follows the journeys of more than forty families as they navigate a legal and social landscape that fails to recognize their existence. Acosta contextualizes the legal realities of LGBTQ stepparent families and considers the actions these parents take to protect their families in the absence of comprehensive policies or laws geared to meet their needs. Queer Stepfamilies reveals the obstacles these families face in family courts during divorce proceedings and custody cases, and highlights their distrust of courts when it comes to acting in their children’s best interests, especially in the event of an origin parent’s death. As LGBTQ families continue to make social and legal strides in acceptance and recognition, this important book shows how queer stepparents find ways to make their unconventional families work, despite the many social and legal obstacles they encounter. Acosta provides a fresh perspective, broadening our understanding about families in the twenty-first century.

Stepfamilies and the Law

Author : Margaret M. Mahoney
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780472105199
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Stepfamilies and the Law written by Margaret M. Mahoney and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for those who wish to understand the meaning of stepfamily relationships in America today

The International Handbook of Stepfamilies

Author : Jan Pryor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470419504
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The International Handbook of Stepfamilies written by Jan Pryor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-06 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by contributors from around the world, The International Handbook of Stepfamilies: Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments is a collection of research, legal, and clinical recommendations that fills a growing need for complex, re-formed families. Using the information in this book, which includes contemporary research and its implications, you will be able to consider stepfamilies in an international context. Understand the issues that clinicians face when they work with stepfamilies, both before and after formation, and gain more knowledge about this topic as the rates of family reformation increase.

Stepfamilies

Author : Alan Booth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317843959
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Stepfamilies written by Alan Booth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepfamilies represent an increasing number of American households and shape the upbringing of countless stepchildren. Despite their prominence in society, our knowledge about these families is very limited. To address this deficit, the editors have drawn together the work of 16 nationally known scholars to deal with four questions: * Marriages that create stepfamilies: Why do they occur? Fail? Succeed? * How do stepfamilies function as child rearing environments? * How do stepfamilies function as sources of support in later life? * Building research and policy agendas: What is needed? In seeking answers to these questions, the book bridges the disciplines of psychology, sociology, social psychology, child development, demography, law and policy. Readers will gain an understanding of the current knowledge about stepfamilies, obtain an appreciation of the diverse views on a variety of stepfamily issues, learn about existing and anticipated laws and policies that affect stepfamilies, and acquire ideas on needed research and policy agendas. Chapter authors are leading figures in psychology, sociology, demography, human development, and family law; their contributions are valuable to researchers, teachers, and students as well as policymakers and legislatures.

The Smart Stepfamily

Author : Ron L. Deal
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 076420159X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book The Smart Stepfamily written by Ron L. Deal and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each member has their own unique place in a family. Ron Deal explores the myth of the "blended" family offering practical, realistic solutions for stepfamilies.

Stepfamilies

Author : Roni Berger
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780789002808
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Stepfamilies written by Roni Berger and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining theoretical, empirical, and clinical knowledge, Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective contains recent research and information that will help mental health practitioners, family therapists, psychologists, and counselors understand the characteristics, dynamics, needs, and issues of nonclinical stepfamilies. Based on direct experiences with diverse types of stepfamilies, this book gives you new guidelines and strategies that will enable you to offer more successful sessions to your clients and improve your effectiveness as a practitioner. Developed to give you a more realistic understanding of stepfamilies, this text helps you avoid the stereotypes and false perceptions that often surround stepfamilies. Offering methods and strategies aimed at making your clients feel comfortable about themselves and their situations, Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective examines several aspects of these families that you need to know in order to improve your effectiveness with them, including: the definition and description of stepfamilies and recognizing historical and social changes in the stepfamily structure critical reviews on the present knowledge of stepfamilies describing the complexity of family structure, the ambiguity of boundaries and roles, and the struggle with the diverse phases of the life cycle discussing key issues for stepfamilies, such as past orientation and acceptance/rejection of differences from non-stepfamilies and focal subsystems the profile, characteristics, and case studies of an innovative typology of stepfamilies that includes integrated families, invented families, and imported families aspects of ethnically and culturally different stepfamilies, including American stepfamilies, Israeli stepfamilies, and immigrant stepfamilies from the former Soviet Union social perceptions and attitudes of stepfamilies in schools, social services, community organizations, the media, and with the law Offering case studies and data on a variety of families and situations, Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective will show you that all stepfamilies are not the same and cannot be helped by just one practice method. Complete with principles and instruments to assess patients and the success of sessions, Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective works to promote an understanding of stepfamilies that will result in effective and positive therapy for your clients.

Stepfamilies

Author : Jan Pryor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000082911
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stepfamilies written by Jan Pryor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book reviews the most current global research and highlights the challenges, possibilities, and dynamics of stepfamily households. It describes their formation, their experiences, and the factors that help them thrive. International and cultural differences are highlighted throughout along with issues of class, gender, and religion. Nontraditional stepfamilies such as those headed by same-sex families are also explored along with clinical and legal issues. Engagingly written with numerous vignettes and examples, each chapter features objectives, an introduction, boldfaced key terms, summary, list of key terms, discussion questions, exercises, and additional text and web resources. The book concludes with a glossary. Highlights of coverage include: The history, diversity, and demography of stepfamilies (ch. 1). Frameworks for thinking about stepfamilies (ch. 2). The impact of race and culture on stepfamily dynamics (ch. 3). Stepfamily formation including the role of cohabitation and lone parenting (ch.4). The wellbeing of adults in stepfamilies including resident and nonresident parents (ch.5). Relationships in stepfamilies including those between adults, between adults and children, and between siblings (chs. 6 & 7). Children’s wellbeing in stepfamilies, and factors that help explain outcomes (ch. 8). The importance of intergenerational relationships (ch.9). Stepfamilies headed by sex couples; wellbeing, stigma and legal issues (ch. 10). Factors that promote wellbeing in stepfamilies such as communication patterns, rituals, and flexibility (ch.11). Interventions and therapy, and recent legal and policy issues (chs. 12 & 13). New ways of thinking about stepfamily living (ch. 14). Intended as a core advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate text for courses on stepfamilies or as a supplement for courses on divorce, family studies, introduction to the family, and/or marriage and the family taught in human development and family studies, psychology, sociology, and social work, the book also appeals to those who work with stepfamilies in a counseling or legal setting.

Stepfamilies

Author : Marvin B Sussman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317790669
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Stepfamilies written by Marvin B Sussman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy examines language use, laws, cultural stereotypes, media images, and social policies and practices to create an understanding of how predominant views about stepfamilies and stepfamily members are constructed within society. As the rates of divorce and remarriage continue to increase, it is more important than ever to overcome nuclear family ideology and abandon the model of research that compares stepfamilies with nonstepfamilies. This book shows you how honor and empowerment can be attained in new family structures and how alternative kin networks can be just as healthy as the traditional nuclear family unit.As this book examines the ability of different societies to integrate different family forms into mainstream notions of “family,” you will realize the damaging effects of treating stepfamilies as incomplete, undesirable institutions. In fact, Stepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy will challenge your notions of family over and over again, as it discusses: key relationships in stepfamilies stepfather involvement in parenting after remarriage meaning of gender in a stepfamily differences in “investment” between biological and nonbiological parents demographic change and significant shifts in the social and cultural implications of stepfamilies attempting to reconstruct a household like that of a previous marriage the impact of stereotypes on the internal dynamics of stepfamilies and on the interactions of stepfamilies with outsiders the absence of guidelines and cultural norms for role performance and problem solving in stepfamiliesStepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy discusses both the difficulties of forming new families and households as well as the factors that promote family cohesiveness and integration in stepfamilies. From stereotypes of stepmothers to ambiguous legal relationships to child maltreatment in stepfamilies to sibling relations, there isn’t much that the penetrating lens of this book leaves uncovered.

Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800

Author : Lyndan Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815382140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800 written by Lyndan Warner and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepfamilies in Europe 1400 to 1800 addresses a significant gap in literature on the history of the family and provides an in-depth study into the complex family structures created upon remarriage and the impact that these new relationships had on the life course and life cycle of the family across a range of European countries.

Stepfamilies in the Law of Intestate Succession and Wills

Author : Margaret M. Mahoney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Stepfamilies in the Law of Intestate Succession and Wills written by Margaret M. Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many modern families do not take the form of the traditional nuclear family. A common variant is the stepfamily, formed when the parent of a minor child marries an individual who is not the other natural parent. In many cases, the relationship that forms between stepparent and child is an important family relationship. Nevertheless, the laws regulating the rights and duties of family members generally exclude stepfamily members. The law of intestate succession illustrates the peremptory manner in which the legal system ignores stepfamilies. Stepfamily members are not eligible to inherit from each other under modern intestate succession statutes. Unfairly, they are excluded from the rights of inheritance. The related law of wills also has evidenced some bias against the treatment of steprelatives as family members. While recognition of nontraditional family members would necessarily complicate the statutory intestacy scheme, the legal system must be responsive to the changing nature of families, in a thoughtful and constructive manner. Laws in the areas of intestate succession and wills seek to accomplish the testamentary intentions of property owners, and to provide certainty and financial protection for surviving family members. This Article demonstrates that these goals are best accomplished when lawmakers recognize that for many individuals steprelatives are family members.

Estate Planning for Blended Families

Author : Richard E. Barnes
Publisher : NOLO
ISBN 13 : 9781413310184
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Estate Planning for Blended Families written by Richard E. Barnes and published by NOLO. This book was released on 2009 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Targeting parents in second marriages who want to provide for their current spouse and their children from both marriages, the author provides sample estate plans and covers such topics as estate and gift taxes in a second marriage, choosing executors and trustees, the latest federal and state laws, and much more. 15,000 first printing. Original.

Doing Life with Your Adult Children

Author : Jim Burns, Ph.D
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310353793
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Doing Life with Your Adult Children written by Jim Burns, Ph.D and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition. If you've raised a child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when they turn eighteen. In many ways, your relationship gets even more complicated--your heart and your head are as involved as ever, but you can feel things shifting, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact. Doing Life with Your Adult Children helps you navigate this rich and challenging season of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to the most common questions he's received over the years, including: My child's choices are breaking my heart--where did I go wrong? Is it OK to give advice to my grown child? What's the difference between enabling and helping? What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home? What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood? How do I relate to my grown child's significant other? What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries? How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values? Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

Divorce and Stepfamilies

Author : Jared Meyer
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 144886898X
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Divorce and Stepfamilies written by Jared Meyer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many marriages in the United States end in divorce. Since most of those who get divorced will marry again, many children of divorce will need to adjust to stepfamilies. This book helps teens cope with the many changes that take place when their parents divorce and remarry, often including moves to new homes and dividing time between biological parents. Teens are encouraged to take the time to build good relationships with stepparents, stepsiblings, and in some cases, new half siblings, as well as strong relationships with their parents individually. Readers will feel supported and less alone as they cope with their own emotions and navigate these challenging life transitions.

One Family, Two Family, New Family

Author : Lisa Cohn
Publisher : White Cloud Press
ISBN 13 : 9781883991746
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book One Family, Two Family, New Family written by Lisa Cohn and published by White Cloud Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and advice for step families.

Growing Up in Stepfamilies

Author : Gill Gorell Barnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198280965
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in Stepfamilies written by Gill Gorell Barnes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain today has the highest divorce rate in Europe, and by the early 1990s one in twelve children was living in a stepfamily. Using case studies of fifty children born in 1958, this book examines the long-term effects of living in a stepfamily.

Families and Law

Author : Marvin B Sussman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135068259
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Families and Law written by Marvin B Sussman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family and the law, with its attendant legal systems, share a pervasive connectedness. With this new volume, family practitioners and scholars can begin to increase the family?s position in relation to the law and legal system. The contributing authors bring to light the power of laws and the ways to influence them,for the benefit of the family.