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'Legal policy applied to domestic relationships has the potential to promote equality between the sexes. However, there has been little inclination to engage in social engineering on this issue' Discuss.
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'Legal policy applied to domestic relationships has the potential to promote equality between the sexes. However, there has been little inclination to engage in social engineering on this issue and, in fact; this is a general characteristic of English domestic relations law.' Discuss. Across boundaries of time and culture there have always been unequal power relations between men and women and as the years roll on, each age and each society can be characterised by attempts made to establish equality between the sexes. The construct of legal policy within the sphere of domestic relations has an obvious impact on the status of both the man and the woman in larger society as the crux of issues within domestic relations law lies within the home. It is here where children are raised, ideas are indoctrinated and basic male-female roles are instilled and propagated. It would indeed be true to state that legal...
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