Family law

This book presents multidimensional knowledge on children of incarcerated parents using Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory as an organizing framework.

This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

As the radical reforms contained in the Enterprise Act 2002 have come fully on-stream, Personal Insolvency Law has become a major focus of attention.

This fully updated new edition of From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children.

The foundations of health and wellbeing are laid down in pregnancy and the early years.

There are a number of important (landmark) cases in the development of Family Law in England and Wales that deserve detailed examination and lend themselves particularly well to historical examination.

A road map for late-life divorceDivorce can be emotionally devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for people who divorce later in life and can face complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning.

Praise for the Fifth Edition:"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

This edited collection brings together a range of experts on surrogacy, at a time when the law in the UK has been fully reconsidered for the first time in generations.

Concepts of who and what children are and what childhood consists of have changed over time.

Children Who Resist Postseparation Parental Contact is a critical, empirically based review of parental alienation that integrates the best research evidence with clinical insight from interviews with leading scholars and practitioners.

Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment.

This book will expand students' knowledge and understanding of the evolution of juvenile justice in the last 50 years.

Child Sexual Abuse critically evaluates the development of policy and legislative measures to control sex offenders.

Each individual experiences obligations arising from personal relationships.

Psychology, Emotion and Intuition in Work Relationships: The Head, Heart and Gut Professional highlights the increasing importance of human relations in professional life.

Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland is an authoritative resource for professionals navigating the complex framework of adult protection law and practice.

This convenient and easy-to-use orientation reference and care guide provides new neonatal nurses and their preceptors with the core information they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective, holistic care to newborn infants and their families.

Using a wide range of primary sources, this book provides a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage law and practice.

Those involved in family and sexual relationships today face a bewildering variety of medico-legal dilemmas.

This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship.

The articles selected for this volume draw on game theory, political science, psychology, sociology and anthropology to consider how the process of dispute resolution is altered, challenged and made more complex by the presence of multiple parties and/or multiple issues.

This collection of essays is a tribute to Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, who died aged 72 on 1 December 2020 after having retired from the UK Supreme Court just two months earlier.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to genes, fetal development and early brain development.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

Law and legal discourse both presuppose and produce legal subjects.

The Kit b-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah ' Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world.

Though much has been written about twins, very little research has been done into their everyday lives, both postnatal and prenatal.

Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed.

This book discusses child wishes, rights and participation in the foster care system.

This book explores the law and legal system's impact on older persons.

Key Facts and Key Cases: Family Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Family Law module with ease.

This book examines in detail the status of children in the EU.

This volume provides an essential update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family violence.

This book tackles a complex area of law, social policy and social work, providing a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical, practical and legal boundaries of State power following safeguarding and child protection referrals in England.

Our understanding of how pain in early life differs to that in maturity is continuing to increase and develop, using a combination of approaches from basic science, clinical science, and implementation science.

This volume asks what legal and socio legal scholarship can contribute to understanding the role of law in the care and development of children.

In the wake of the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases, a wide-ranging international conversation was started regarding alternative thresholds for intervention and the different balances that can be made in weighing up the rights and interests of the child, the parent's rights and responsibilities and the role of medical professionals and the courts.

'Caring and the Law' considers the law's response to caring.

Children's nurses are faced with unique challenges when undertaking clinical skills, adapting their knowledge and practice for the physical and developmental age of their patients.

Navigate the extensive jurisdiction and powers of the Court of Protection.

This multidisciplinary volume offers an essential, comprehensive study of perspectives on the scope and application of the best interests of the child and focuses mainly on its application in relation to child custody.

A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of children in historical and contemporary legal discourse.

This title was first published in 2000: The great mobility of people and capital in the world today means that the likelihood of a person acquiring and dying with assets in more than one jurisdiction is probably greater than ever.

This essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with other key health and social care professions, regardless of field, need to know about caring for people with a learning disability and autism.

These essays explore the nature and limits of individual autonomy in law, policy and the work of regulatory agencies.

Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "e;responsible procreation"e; and child welfare.

The case for marriage equality and monogamy in a democratic societyThe institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture.

Dans nos sociétés modernes, l’héritage n’est plus réservé aux riches.

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status - has frequently been neglected.