Divorce, Custody, Gender, and the Limits of Law: On \u3cem\u3eDividing the Child\u3c/em\u3e

A Review of Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody by Elanor E. Maccoby and Robert H. Mnooki

The Legal History of the Family

A Review of Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America by Michael Grossber

Moral Discourse and Family Law

It seems appropriate in the early stages of an experiment in legal publishing to say something about it, if only because few forms have been as resistant to innovation as the law review. The creation of a section for correspondence regarding recent articles provides a medium for conducting just the national discourse which scholarship aspires to provoke and which does occur in private conversations or letters and, occasionally, in panels at professional meetings. To talk in print about a colleague\u27s work - to praise it, qualify it, pursue suggested or alternate lines of thought - is not only an enjoyable thing to do but promises to facilitate more focused interchanges of ideas and research than has previously been possible

The Liberty Interest of Children: Due Process Rights and Their Application

Few areas pose more difficult problems in the application of due process doctrine than does regulation of parent-child relationships. Determination of the procedural requirements for intervention by the state in the lives of children, at the request or with the agreement of parents, presents novel and troublesome constitutional questions. Special problems arise in the definition of the liberty interests of minors and in determining how much process is due given an infringement of those interests. These problems cannot be resolved by resort to the categorical assumptions of either traditional theory or children\u27s liberation. Close examination of the interests held by parents, children, and state, and of the process by which those interests are affected, will be required