Download or read book The Child, the Family, and the Court, Vol. 1 written by Bernard Flexner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Child, the Family, and the Court, Vol. 1: A Study of the Administration of Justice in the Field of Domestic Relations; General Findings and Recommendations A number of elements unite to make these questions of peculiar importance in the United States at the present time: (1) Legal the ory is entering a new stage of development, the era of sociological, or social, jurisprudence, in which it will consider more than ever before the realization of human interests. (2) There is a growing pressure from the cities for organization of justice and improvement of legal procedure to meet the exigencies of urban development. (3) The jurisdictions of the courts overlap, and different judges pass upon different angles of what is really one problem of family life. (4) A new judicial technique is developing, in which the courts rely in large part upon such nonlegal sciences as medicine and psychology. (5) The last quarter century has witnessed the establishment of a number of special and in many respects novel tribunals, including particularly juvenile courts and. Courts of domestic relations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.