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With the accelerating movement of individuals and families across national borders, the intersections of cultural and legal frameworks have become complex. This title collects essays from around the world on the challenges of legal pluralism, minority religious communities and customary or indigenous law.

The law has been interested in marriage and conjugal cohabitation and in the range of public and private obligations that accrue from intimate living. This collection of articles explores that legal interest, while at the same time locating marriage and cohabitation within a range of intimate affiliations.

Brings together some of the best journal articles which deal with various aspects of the relationship between parents and children. Adopting an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book reproduces articles from some 17 journals in law and the social sciences.