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The Emergence of an Afro-Caribbean Legal Tradition: Gender Relations and Family Courts in Kingston, Jamaica
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Product Details
- Published on: 1995-08
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 250 pages
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Synopsis
This study demonstrates how the recent reforms in Jamaican legislation have failed to close the discrepancies between social laws reflecting a nuclear family structure and the needs of a culture where serial mating, out-of-wedlock births and absentee paternity is common.
