Gibson, Colin S.,  1937- <br/><br/>
Dissolving wedlock / 
Colin S. Gibson. 
 - London :  Routledge,  1994. 
 - 246 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: (pages 231-239) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Part I: Before civil divorce -- Ecclesiastical influence and jurisdiction in matrimonial matters -- Decline of the ecclesiastical courts -- Parliamentary divorce -- The coming of judicial divorce -- Part II: Divorce or separation -- Constraints of poverty and gender -- Between the wars -- From matrimonial offence to irretrievable breakdown -- Part III: Marriage patterns in the twentieth century -- Changing family patterns -- The resort to divorce: the social evidence -- The reconstituted family -- Part IV: Marriage breakdown today -- Divorce: the legal evidence -- Family breakdown, protection and the law -- Accounting for family support -- Marriage breakdown in the 1990s. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415032253 0415032261 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>93007386 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Divorce--History.--England<br/>Divorce--History.--Wales<br/>Marriage--History.--England<br/>Marriage--History.--Wales<br/>Marriage law--England.<br/>Marriage law--Wales.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.890942