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In Ireland, historically and in the current era, family has been a central concern for society and the State. This article provides a descriptive overview of family life in Ireland and of major family-related changes over the past 40 years. It presents a general framework of analysis within which these changes can be understood, considers the general nature of change and continuity in family in Ireland, and proposes some implications for research and policy in the early part of this century.

A thorough explanation of how family enterprises work The family enterprise, whether an operating business, a family office, or both, is the backbone of the US and international economies. These enterprises cut across industries and geographies and can be first-generation entrepreneurial companies or multi-generational businesses with family offices. This book offers a foundation in and understanding of how family enterprises work, including working definitions and the key characteristics of family enterprises, as well as useful concepts for working with and in family enterprises, eit

General health of family and comments on English politics, specifically, Prime Minister Disraeli.

In view of the quite considerable international research into the sociology of the family, family law and the sociology of law, albeit on separated disciplinary lines of theory and methodology, the authors consider the strenghtening of comprehensive approaches to the study of family and law necessary. One of these is the formulation of a theoretical guide line for the conduct of interdisciplinary empirical research in the field. The authors suggest that sociological attention should be divided equally between the functions and structures of the family on the one hand and the law on the other so as to be able to construct a theoretical frame for empirical research on family law of scientific value for both the lawyer and the sociologist. This article scans the contributions of the sociology of the family and the sociology of law in the field of marriage, family and the state and tries to link them up to form a comprehensive theoretical perspective on family dynamics and legal change as these can be subjected to meaningful empirical research. An example for such a study is provided by the authors' research into the social impact of the family courts/divorce procedures in West Germany, Denmark, and Australia.

Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray current trends in family life, explain the pressing policy challenges these trends have produced, and analyze the changes in family law that are essential to meeting these challenges. The challenges are large and pressing. Across the industrialized West, nonmarital birth, relational stress, multi-partner fertility, and relationship dissolution have increased, producing a dramatic rise in single parenthood, poverty, and childhood risk. This concentration of familial and economic risk accelerates socioeconomic inequality and retards intergenerational mobility. Although the divide is most pronounced in the United States, the same patterns now affect families throughout the Western world. Across the European Union, there are 9.2 million "lone" parents, and just under half of their families live in poverty. Tying the Knot demonstrates how today's family patterns are deeply rooted in long-standing, class-based differences in family life and explains why these class-based differences have accelerated. It explains how the values that guide family law development inevitably reflect the world in which families live and develops a new family law capable of meeting the needs of twenty-first century families. The book will be of considerable interest to family specialists from a number of fields, including law, demography, economics, history, political science, public health, social policy, and sociology.

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