This contribution to comparative family law brings together essays on a range of issues in family law in the US and England showing how they stand at the beginning of the 21st century and how they reached there. They examine how family law has reacted to a period of change in family life widely held to be without precedent.

This volume brings together essays on a range of issues in family law in the United States and England. It provides an unparalleled opportunity to examine how family law has reacted to a period of unprecedented change in family life. The legal analyses are set within critical accounts of wider social and family policy and against a fully explored demographic background.

Cross Currents is set deservedly to become one of the standard texts on family law on both sides of the Atlantic for the next generation of students and scholars.