Family law: children

As the number of couples choosing to live together (and not to marry) is on the rise, it is essential that access to what their legal rights and obligations are is readily available.

This timely collection brings together philosophical, legal and sociological perspectives on the crucial question of who should make decisions about the fate of a child suffering from a serious illness.

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection.

This important edited collection is the culmination of research undertaken by the Children's Rights Judgments Project.

There is growing enthusiasm for the use of mediation to seek to resolve cases arising under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the Convention).

This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators.

The law relating to children does not seem to stand still long enough to have its photograph taken So says Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, before endorsing the one book he says has captured its image.

Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting.

Child migration and child movement cases are now more frequent and increasingly complex.

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash.

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.

Can you hear the child's voice?

Beginning with Etan Patz's disappearance in Manhattan in 1979, a spate of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children stoked anxieties about the threats of child kidnapping and exploitation.

The good divorce guide.

Putting Children''s Interests First in US Family Law and Policy details the rise of federal ''sexual expressionism'' policy.

International child abduction is one of the most emotionally charged and fascinating areas of family law practice.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of thirty young men serving time in the Pennsylvania adult prison system for crimes they committed when they were minors.

The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law presents cutting-edge scholarship on a broad range of topics covering the life course of humans from before birth to adulthood, by leading scholars in law, medicine, social work, sociology, education, and philosophy, and by practitioners in law and medicine.

A Practical Guide to Fostering Law is an accessible, jargon-free guide to the key elements of the law that concern foster carers and the professionals who work with them.

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2018International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall.

Family Law practice has undergone a period of rapid and significant change with the removal of legal aid funding and the establishment of the single Family Court in particular represent major adjustment for those working in the field.

Answers to many legal questions often depend on our understanding of the relationship between the human brain and behavior.

Since the first edition of Pauline Teslers groundbreaking book, Collaborative Law, there has been an explosion of interest in this dispute resolution method.

This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings.

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash.

Die Beibehaltung der gemeinsamen Sorge im Falle der elterlichen Trennung oder Scheidung sagt inhaltlich nichts darüber aus, von welchem Elternteil und in wessen Elternhaushalt das Kind dann betreut wird.

Are you concerned about falling foul of the pitfalls across the spectrum of modern family proceedings?

This book examines how developing law and policies in England and Wales simultaneously promote and undermine children''s rights.

This book offers a foundational defense of the rights of parents as primary educators of their children.

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London.

This book addresses the pressing challenges presented by the proliferation of international surrogacy arrangements.

This book examines how developing law and policies in England and Wales simultaneously promote and undermine children''s rights.

The story of Wilhelmina Yazzie and her sons effort to seek an adequate education in New Mexico schools revealed an educational system with poor policy implementation, inadequate funding, and piecemeal educational reform.

Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.

Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life.

This book challenges conventional boundaries of family law providing a solid foundation and edge to students'' understanding of the topic.

When domestic abuse and children are involved, divorce and custody can be the epitome of high-stakes conflict and frustration and all too frequently protective parents lose custody of their child to a named abuser.

Are you concerned about falling foul of the pitfalls across the spectrum of modern family proceedings?

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together the work of scholars of several different generations and several different national contexts.

This book grew out of a major European Union (EU) funded project on the Hague Maintenance Convention of 2007 and on the EU Maintenance Regulation of 2009.

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.