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Family law, on the other hand, may also have its roots in ancient times when the welfare of the family especially of the children were given enough consideration and importance. In the United States, laws governing the family were enacted after the Revolution which covered marriage, child rearing, illegitimacy, and other family relations. The first family law book entitled Domestic Relations was published in 1870 and this institutionalized the basic divisions of the law and its fundamental ideological commitments such as the primacy of individual choice in marriage and parental control of child rearing.