Family law

This book presents research-based family-school intervention programs that target the specific developmental period of preschool through the early elementary years, focusing on promoting positive child transitions into school.

This book presents a model for reforming and developing Indigenous related legislation and policy, not only in Australia, but also in other jurisdictions.

The Protections for Religious Rights is the first practitioner work to offer a full and systematic treatment of the law as it pertains to religious rights in the UK and abroad.

This book explores the specialist area of cryptocurrency in the context of matrimonial finance proceedings.

That 'poor law was law' is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America.

The fourth volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) presents nine new articles offering scholarly insights into a variety of legal issues, with a special focus on the countries of Southeast Europe.

Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory.

This book offers a multidisciplinary environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate change caused by globalized economics and consumption.

This book addresses the concept of parental alienation - the belief that when a child of divorced parents avoids one parent, it may be because the preferred parent has persuaded the child to do this.

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

The approximately two million gay and lesbian elders in the United States are an underserved and understudied population.

The high profile cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and Tafida Raqeeb raised the questions as to why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their child.

Following on from her previous nine books on discrimination law, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter now focuses on the goal of child equality.

Genetic screening technologies involving pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) raise particular issues about selective reproduction and the welfare of the child to be born.

Der unbestimmte Rechtsbegriff des Kindeswohls dient nicht nur als Eingriffslegitimation des Staates bei Gefährdungslagen, sondern wird auch zum Entscheidungsmaßstab.

This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA).

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.

"e;Crossover"e; Children in the Youth Justice and Child Protection Systems explores the outcomes faced by the group of children who experience involvement with both child protection and youth justice systems across several countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the population is growing.

Written from an ethnographic perspective, this book investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in Gaza-Palestine.

Your family lawyer in a book.

The third edition of this work on family law, comprising text, cases and materials, provides not only an explication of legal principle but also explores, primarily from a feminist perspective, some of the assumptions about, and constructions of, gender, sexual orientation, class and culture that underlie the law.

This volume provides an authoritative, evenhanded overview of the Trump administration's family separation and child detention policies at the U.

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations.

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

Based on field studies and in-depth interviews across rural and urban China, this book presents a socio-legal analysis of non-state organised care for some of China's most vulnerable children.

This book considers how a phenomenon as complex as coercive control can be criminalised.

This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA).

Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice, Second Edition, offers readers an overview of domestic violence and its effects on society and includes helpful measures to curtail its rapid growth and widespread harm.

Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in 'the body' in contemporary societies?

Each year, a number of youth who migrate alone and clandestinely from China to the United States are apprehended, placed in removal proceedings, and designated as unaccompanied minors.

The book shows how state-enforced religious laws impact human rights, and what people do to advance their rights from within.

Recently, many political voices have indicated a strong desire to track down absent fathers who have absconded without fulfilling child support obligations to their biological or adopted children.

A comprehensive analysis of Christian influences on Western family law from the first century to the present day.

Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom.

Give your revision the edge with this text from the bestselling law revision series Family Law, 9th edition, by Jonathan Herring, is a revision text designed to prepare you for exams by encouraging you to think about how the law works and consolidating your understanding of legal concepts.

This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow's canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars-including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether, Ilene Philipson, Meg Jay, Daphne de Marneffe, Alison Stone and Petra Bueskens-in a mix of memoir, festschrift, reflection, critical analysis and new directions in Chodorowian scholarship.

Explores family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues.

Paare, die sich trennen, sind oft in einem Kreislauf aus Wut, Ohnmacht und Verletzungen gefangen.

This monograph illuminates the connections between juvenile defense policies and the racially disparate impact of the juvenile justice system.

This book examines the potential impact of human rights in the way the law interacts with families.

This valuable compendium advances the understanding of mental health case law, making it highly accessible to practicing forensic professionals.

This textbook provides the reader with an insight into the needs of children with both physical and learning disabilities, particularly within an acute care setting.

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.

Unsurpassed in authority, reliability and accuracy; Blackstone's Statutes, trusted by students for over 30 years.

This important new text is the product of several years of research of the family law of fifteen Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions.

How can we end the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in the US's urban ghettos?