Grandparents' Visitation Rights
| Autor: | Charles Lockhart, Jean Giles-Sims |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Divorce & Remarriage. 44:1-16 |
| ISSN: | 1540-4811 1050-2556 |
| DOI: | 10.1300/j087v44n03_01 |
| Popis: | As the number of persons affected by divorce rises, controversies develop within states over the appropriate character of laws about grandparents' visitation rights (GVR). Consequently, there is considerable cross-state variation in GVR statutes, and we link this variation with state political culture. We argue that adherents of the rival cultures distinguished by Douglas-Wildavsky “grid-group” theory will: (1) hold different conceptions of the family, (2) adopt contrasting orientations toward grandparenting and (3) create distinctive GVR statutes. Our empirical analysis supports our theory-based explanation and prediction for the pattern of variation in state GVR statutes, but the predicted relations are not as strong as we had anticipated. |
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