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- Title
Till Disinterest Do Us Part: Trial Marriage, Public Policy, and the Fear of Familial Decay in the United States, 1900-1930.
- Authors
KUBY, WILLIAM
- Abstract
The article examines the history of American views regarding public policy and trial marriages, or, as defined by the article, marriages typically among young, working-class people who intended to leave the marriage if it became unsatisfactory. Topics discussed include government policy on marriage, the social implications of divorce, and the status of women, both married and single, in the early twentieth-century.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE policy; MARRIAGE law; HISTORY of the legal status of married women; LEGAL status of single women; DIVORCE; DIVORCE &; society; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 3, p383
- ISSN
1043-4070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/JHS23303