By Marvin B. Sussman (auth.), Suzanne K. Steinmetz (eds.)
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Marvin B. Sussman 33 END NOTE 1. An excellent treatise on the historical, legal, and social issues of marriage contracts is found in Lenore Weitzman, The Marriage Contract, New York: The Free Press, 1981. L. Visitation rights of a grand parent over the objections of a parent: The best interests of the child. Journal of Family Law, 1976, 15, 51. W. Family living in the later decades, Annals, 1952, 279, 106. H. Human nature and the social order. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902. H. Social organization.
These changes in laws affecting families will influence the research process itself. The opportunity to free from the closet sensitive issues or to muzzle the study and treatment of particular family problems is directly related to the themes and content of such laws. Understanding how the separate but complementary legal systems function 32 The Law and Legal Systems: The Family Connection will save the family scholar and clinician from making mistakes, enabling one to distinguish the impossible from that which is possible and to discover perhaps how the impossible may become possible.
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