World changes in divorce patterns /
Examines trends in divorce worldwide, analyzing information on Asian and Arab countries, Latin America, Western Europe and the Anglo countries. Topics include: the rise in cohabitation; the relation between divorce and such factors as age and class; and the problems caused by divorce.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1993.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Cross-National Analysis of Changes in Divorce Patterns
- 2. Divorce in Europe: Emergence of the General Pattern
- 3. Southern European Catholic Countries: The Recent Permission to Divorce
- 4. The Nordic Countries: Public Programs for Dealing with the Consequences of Divorce
- 5. Eastern Europe: Polities as Agents of Marital Dissolution
- 6. The Anglo Countries: The Common-Law Tradition in Different Settings
- 7. Latin America: A Regional System of Formal and Informal Divorce
- 8. Stable High-Divorce-Rate Systems and Their Decline: Japan and Malaysia
- 9. The Arab World: Internal Changes with Few Clear Trends in Divorce Rates
- 10. Three Patterns of Declining Divorce Rates in Asia: Under Industrial Growth in Indonesia and Taiwan and under Strong Governmental Intervention in China
- 11. Conclusion and Further Themes.