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Books reviewed in this articles: 1. Berne, Eric, M.D. What Do You Say After You Say Hello? 2. Brothers, Joyce, Ph.D. The Brothers System for Liberated Love and Marriage. 3. Dominguez, J., M.D. Felicidad Sexual, Matrimonial y Prematrimonial. 4. Gagnon, John H., and William Simon. Sexual Conduct. 5. Goldstein, Joseph; Anna Freud, and Albert J. Soinit. Beyond the Best Interests of the Child. 6. James, Muriel, and Dorothy Jongeward. Born to Win. 7. Klein, Carole. The Single Parent Experience. 8. Kuhn, Jerold R., Ph.D. Marriage Counseling: Fact or Fallacy? 9. Le Shan, Eda. The Wonderful Crisis of Middle Age. 10. Lieberman, E. James, M.D., and Ellen Peck. Sex and Birth Control. 11. Maliver, Bruce L., Ph.D. The Encounter Game. 12. Mann, John. Encounter. 13. Tanner, Ira J. Loneliness: The Fear of Love.     

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Books reviewed in this article: 1. Block, Dr. William A. What Your Child Really Wants to Know About Sex – And Why . 2. Bingham, Sallie. The Way It Is Now . 3. Charny, Dr. Israel. Marital Love and Hate . 4. Cooper, Boyd, M.D. Sex Without Tears . 5. Cuse, Arthur R. Financial Guideline: Divorce . 6. Evslin, Dorothy. The Fortunate Sex . 7. Gorney, Roderil, M.D. The Human Agenda . 8. Halsell, Grace. Black/White Sex . 9. Hart, Harold (Ed.). Marriage: For and Against . 10. Kavanaugh, James. Faces In the City . 11. Satir, Virginia. Peoplemaking . 12. Steincrohn, Peter J., M.D. Antidotes for Anxiety . 13. Stuart, Irving R., Ph.D. and Lawrence Edwin Abt, Ph.D. Children of Separation and Divorce .     

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Books reviewed in this article: 1. Armstrong, Herbert W., The Missing Dimension in Sex . 2. Eisner, Betty Grover, Ph.D., The Unused Potential of Marriage and Sex . 3. Greer, Germaine, The Female Enuch . 4. Gunther, Bernard, What to Do Till the Messiah Comes . 5. Hastings, Donald W., M.D., A Doctor Speaks on Sexual Expression in Marriage . 6. Pannor, Reuben; Fred Massarik, and Byron Evans, The Unmarried Father . 7. Peale, Mrs. Norman Vincent, The Adventure of Being a Wife . 8. Burton, John David, and Robert L. McFarland, Ph.D., Learning for Loving - Communication in Marriage . (See remarks)     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: 1. Ard, Ben, and Constance Ard. Handbook of Marriage Counseling . 2. Bird, Joseph and Lois. Marriage Is for Grownups . 3. Blanck, Rubin, and Gertrude. Marriage and Personal Development . 4. Buhler, Dr. Charlotte. Psychology for Contemporary Living . 5. Harkel, Robert L. The Pictue Book of Sexual Love . 6. Harris, Thomas S., M.D. I'm O.K. - You're O.K. 7. Lobaenz, Norman M., and Clark W. Blackbum. How to Stay Married . 8. Pollak, Otto, and Alfred S. Friedman. Family Dynamics and Female Sexual Delinquency . 9. Singer, Jane Shenod. What You Should Know about Yourself . 10. Stein, Calvert, M.D., LL.B. Practical Family and Marriage Counseling . 11. Winter, William D., and Antonio J. Ferreira. Research in Family Interaction .     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Impasses of Divorce: The Dynamics and Resolution of Family Conflict J. R. Johnston and L.E.G. Campbell
California Divorce Handbook: How to Dissolve Your Marriage Without Financial Disaster Judge James W. Stewart
Adult Children of Divorce Speak Out Claire Berman
Sharing the Care of the Children After Separation: A Practical Guide Anne Opie
Patterns of Infidelity and Their Treamtent Emily M. Brown
Children on Consignment: A Handbook for Parenting Children and Their Special Needs Philip M. Stahl     

Is Fertility the Unspoken Issue in the Debate Between Liberal and Conservative Family Values?

In two recent books, Linda McClain, The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility (2006), and James Q. Wilson, The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families (2002), lay out the respective positions in the opposing family values that divide the United States. Wilson maintains that family well-being rests on the foundation of a strong cultural commitment to marriage, while McClain articulates liberal feminist values that require equality within and among families. This article maintains that delayed childbearing, not marriage or equality, holds the key to the new middle-class morality and discusses the prospects for family law pragmatism in an era of values polarization.     

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NICHOLS, William C., Jr., (Editor) Marriage and Family Therapy: A Reader from the NCFR Journals
FERBER, MENDOLHSON & NAPIER, The Book of Family Therapy
GARDNER, Richard A., M.D., The Boys and Girls Book About Divorce
BURR, Wesley R., Theory Construction and the Sociology of the Family     

REVIEWS

Precedent in English Law and Other Essays . By James Louis Montrose . Edited by H. G. Hanbury . Precedent in English Law . By Rupert Cross . Second Edition. Double Jeopardy . By Martin L. Friedland . The Making of a Criminal . By Patricia Elton Mayo . Constitutional Law in Northern Ireland : A Study in Regional Government . By Harry Calvert . The Vietnam War and International Law . (Sponsored by the American Society of International Law.) Edited by Richard A. Falk . Law and Vietnam . By Roger H. Hull and John C. Novogrod . Foreword by Myres S. Mc Dougal . The Middle East Crisis : Test of International Law . Edited by John W. Halderman . Law and Contemporary Problems Series, No. 11. Restatement of African Law . Kenya . Volume I: The Law of Marriage and Divorce . Volume II: The Law of Succession . By Eugene Cotran . General Editor, Professor A. N. Allott . The Law and Practice of Nigerian Wills , Probate and Succession . By Brian W. Harvey . Uganda , The Development of its Laws and Constitution . By H. F. Morris and James S. Read . Le Droit de la Famille en Afrique Noire et à Madagascar . Edited by Kéba M'Baye . Preface by Marc Ancel . Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law . Edited by Max Gluckman . Neutralization and World Politics . By Cyril E. Black and Others .     

伦理与婚姻法——评马克思《论〈离婚法草案〉》

马克思所著的法学著作涉及伦理问题的比较少,《论〈离婚法草案〉》是其中非常重要的一篇。在这篇文章中,马克思认为婚姻法必须合乎伦理,伦理是婚姻法的本质所在,是婚姻法存在的根本基础,婚姻法是社会认为必须以国家权力为后盾,以法律形式才能维护的婚姻伦理关系的上升。以青年马克思在《论〈离婚法草案〉》中所阐述的伦理与婚姻法思想观察我国现行婚姻法,我们会发现我国现行婚姻法与马克思理想中的婚姻法有许多一致性,可见马克思法律思想对我国法治建设仍然具有深刻影响,继续加强马克思法律思想研究有重要现实意义。     

Reviews

Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Marriage Contract. By Lenore J. Weitzman. [New York: The Free Press. 1981. 536 pp. (incl. index) $17.95.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Cohabitation Without Marriage. By Michael D. A. Freeman and Christina M. Lyon. [Aldershot, Hants.: Gower, 1983. 228 pp. (incl. index). £15.00.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Unmarried Couples. By Winifred H. Holland. [Toronto: The Carswell Company. 1982. 249 pp. (incl. index) Can.$32.50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Family Home. By W. T. Murphy and Hilary Clark. [London: Sweet and Maxwell. 1983. xxi and 229 pp. (incl. index) £6£95 (paperback).] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Fundamentals of Securities Regulation. By Louis Loss. [Boston and Toronto: Little Brown and Company. 1983. xxiii and 1353 pp. No price stated.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Economic Realities and the Female Offender. By Jane Roberts Chapman. [Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books. 1980. 234 pp. (incl. bibliog. and index). No price stated.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Girl Delinquents. By Anne Campbell. [Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1981. 266 pp. Paperback: £4-50.1 Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Analysis of Judicial Reform. Edited by Philip L. Dubois. [Lexington: D. C. Heath. 1982. xiv and 221 pp. £18·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Politics of Judicial Reform. Edited by Philip L. Dubois. [Lexington: D. C. Heath. 1982. xi and 187 pp. £18·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Prosecution in the Public Interest. By Susan R. Moody and Jacqueline Tombs. [Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. 1982. xiii and 167 pp. £12·00.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Free Speech: A Philosophical Inquiry. By Frederick Schauer. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. 237 pp. £ 20·00 (hardback) £6-50 (paperback).] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: English Law and French Law. By René David. [Stevens/Eastern Law House. 1980. 195 pp. Hardback: £12·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: La Responsabilité Civile. By André Tunc. [Economica. 1981. 161 pp. Paperback: 65F.]     

对中国登记离婚制度的评价与反思

The Regulations on Marriage Registration promulgated in 2003 advocates the ideas for autonomy of private law, such as “autonomy of individual will”, “self responsibility” and “self-determination right”, ushering a new era of Chinese divorce registration system from supervision by employed institution to self responsibility, however, such issues also result in excessive freedom and insufficient restriction. In setting up the divorce registration system, therefore, it shall also be considered for the protection of disadvantaged parties and minor children so as to ensure the fairness and justice of law and the harmony and stability of society. Xia Yinlan, LL.D, is a professor and doctoral tutor and the dean of the School of International Studies in China University of Political Science and Law. She is also the vice chairman of Beijing Women’s Federation, the member of the executive committee of China Women’s Federation, the director of Marriage and Family Legal Research Institution under the supervision of China Law Society, the vice director of China Association of Marriage and Family Studies, the standing director of the International Family Law Society, the vice director of Beijing Women’s Law Research Institution. Her major academic interest covers women’s human rights, heritage law and family law. She was once a Fulbright visiting scholar in the United States and a legal expert in Macau Legal Affair Bureau. She’s one of the experts in drafting the P.R.C. Law on the Protection Of Women’s Rights (revised), the Marriage Law of P.R.C. (revised) and the Regulation of Marriage Registration of P.R.C., and she is still active in participating in the legislation activities of China. Prof. Xia wrote or co-wrote more than 20 monographs and textbooks, including American Modern Family and Marriage System, the Freedom and Restriction of Divorce, the Basic Framework Research on Domestic Violence Law, etc. In Chinese and foreign academic journals, more than 60 articles have been released, such as the study on property segmentation in divorce in China, the study on family violence under the framework of women’s rights, the comparison on the factual marriage in Macau and the Mainland of China.     

本案适用修订后的《婚姻法》还是适用修订前的《婚姻法》--兼谈最高院对新修订《婚姻法》溯及力问题的解释

新修订的《婚姻法》是否具有溯及力问题直接影响到有关案件的处理结果。从最高院的司法解释来看,《婚姻法》的新修订部分具有溯及力。但法律是否具有溯及力应由法律本身作出明确规定,不能由司法解释来决定。我国《婚姻法》新修改部分的实施时间是明确的,并未规定有溯及力,最高院规定其有溯及力的司法解释违背了全国人大常委会《关于修改〈婚姻法〉的决定》,也不符合我国《立法法》的有关规定。     

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Books reviewed in this article: 1. Betelheim, Bruno. The Children of the Dream . 2. Comfort, Alex, Ph.D. The Joy of Sex . 3. Rheinstein, Max. Marriage, Divorce, and the Law . 4. Viscott, David S., M.D. The Making of a Psychitrist .     

事实婚姻的立法冲突及解决

事实婚姻不仅是婚姻法的调整对象,也是刑法认定重婚罪的重要基础。在法律规则和司法解释的具体展开上,刑法和婚姻法基于不同的立场从而有所不同,并最终导致在重婚罪的认定上产生冲突。刑法领域内的事实婚姻有其独特的含义,刑法领域内事实婚姻的推定有效和认定无效不同于婚姻法领域内的事实婚姻有效与无效,具有重婚罪构成要件的作用和意义。尊重多元的情感生活方式,公法和私法的融合与重整,都可以为事实婚姻在刑法和婚姻法上的冲突提供解决方案。     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Accidents , Compensation and the Law . By P. S. Atiyah The High Court of Delegates . By G. I. O. Duncan The Restraint of Trade Doctrine . By J. D. Heydon The Conflict of Laws . By J. H. C. Morris , D.C.L. F.B.A Copinger and Skone James on Copyright . Eleventh edition. By E. P. Skone James , M.A., Barrister. Terrell on the Law of Patents . Twelfth edition. By Douglas Falconer , M.B.E., B.SC., William Aldous , M.A., and David Young , M.A. Locus Standi and Judicial Review . By S. M. Thio , LL.M., PH.D. Canadian Constitutional Law in a Modern Perspective . Edited by J. Noel Lyon and Ronald G. Atkin . Reflections on the Constitution and the Constituent Assembly . By L. J. M. Cooray , LL.B.(Cey.), PH.D. (Cantab.) The Legal Régime of Hydrospace . By E. D. Brown . The Human Right to Individual Freedom . Edited by Luis Kutner . Primitive Law , Past and Present . By A. S. Diamond .     

回避婚约:新中国婚姻立法的历史选择及其因由

法律规定婚约,是现代世界立法的主流或一般情形,也是我国前现代的立法传统,但新中国婚姻立法回避了婚约.这一回避婚约的立法模式源自20世纪30年代苏维埃时期的婚姻立法,奠定于新中国成立前夕废除国民党《六法全书》的法制革新,正式形成于1950年新中国第一部婚姻法.基于"征文考献"来看,新中国婚姻立法回避婚约的因由可能主要在三...     

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Books reviewed in this article: 1. Amour, Richard. A Short History of Sex . Clinebell, Howard J ., Jr., and Charlotte H. Clinebell. The Intimate Marriage . 3. Mark, Vernon HA, M.D., and Frank R. Ervin, M.D. Violence and the Brain . 4. Gardner, Richard A., M.D. The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce . 5. Gordon, Thomas. Parent Effectiveness Training . 6. Kutscher, Austin &., Ed. But Not to Lose . 7. Mendel, Werner M., M.D. A Celebration of Laughter . 8. Ohlsen, Merle M. Group Counseling . 9. Reuben, David, M.D. Everything You Always Wanted to Know, etc. 10. Rogers, Carl. On Encounter Groups . 11. Shepard, Martin, M.D., and Marjorie Lee. Games Analysts Play . 12. Viseman, Jacqueline P. Stations of the Lost .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts , Judith Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart , Constance R. Ahrons, Ph.D. The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Wentieth Century Tragedies , Martha Albertson Fineman     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Behavioral Sciences and the Law . Volume 1, number 1. Edited by James L. Cavanaugh, Jr., M.D.
Biological and Behavioral Technologies and the Law . Edited by Michael H. Shapiro     

从传统到现代的嬗变——新中国离婚自由规定的变迁

婚姻制度是一种规范两性关系及部分家庭内部关系的社会制度。婚姻制度的变革充分体现着社会历史与人类文明的发展与进步。通过对我国《婚姻法》中离婚自由相关规定演变的描述,展现了离婚自由从政治附属物到社会秩序附属物再到回归个人幸福的变迁轨迹。历史的发展和婚姻法的实践表明,法律最终还是要回归生活本身,必须要尊重生活。