Family law

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.

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Domestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world.

Marriage law in England and Wales is a historical relic which reflects a bygone age.

This groundbreaking book contributes to, and refocuses, public debates about the incorporation of plural approaches into the English legal system.

This book provides a detailed critical analysis of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on domestic abuse.

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.

This book brings the knowledge gained from the Teen And Police Service Academy (TAPS), which has been implemented internationally to create partnerships with at-risk teens and police, proactively addressing some of the most pressing conditions in their communities.

This book takes a critical approach to the US Supreme Court ruling in Loving v.

This book examines whether more pluralism in family law is normatively desirable and should be affirmatively fostered.

This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.

This book provides an account of the experience of a multifaceted system-change programme to strengthen the capacity of Ireland's statutory child protection and welfare agency in the areas of prevention, early intervention and family support.

Der Bundesgerichtshof schuf den familienrechtlichen Ausgleichsanspruch 1959, um einen Ausgleich für geleisteten, aber nicht geschuldeten Kindesunterhalt zu ermöglichen.

This title was first published in 2002.

Situates donor conception debates in a global context, exploring the interaction between law, technology, and relationships.

International Child Law examines the international laws for children at both a global and a regional level.

While masculinities theory has had much to say on relationships of subordination, few feminist legal scholars have examined the implications of masculinities theory for feminist legal theory.

This book presents papers from an International Symposium on Contact Disputes and Allegations of Domestic Violence: Identifying Best Practices, held in London in May 2017.

Domestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world.

This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage.

This new addition to the Fast Facts series delivers the core information for orienting novice nurses or nursing students to the challenging field of pediatric nursing.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

The good divorce guide.

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

This volume considers the impact that changing family norms have had on the responsibilities that the law allocates to people in family relationships.

Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies.

In recent years the notion of parenting and parenthood have increasingly come under examination from the media and professionals and, in particular, government and politicians.

This book addresses women's rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective.

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families.

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

While in the past family life was characterised as a "e;haven from the harsh realities of life"e;, it is now recognised as a site of vulnerabilities and a place where care work can go unacknowledged and be a source of social and economic hardship.

Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves?

Legal Issues in Special Education provides teachers and school administrators with a clearly written, well-organized, and understandable guide from the perspective of the practitioner without formal legal training.

Polls and election results show Americans sharply divided on same-sex marriage, and the controversy is unlikely to subside anytime soon.

Delivers strategic, evidence-based measures for recognizing and treating abnormal behaviors in children in the content of primary care practiceWritten for practicing pediatric and family nurse practitioners, and PNP and FNP students, this pediatric primary care text expands on the crucial role of the healthcare provider to assess, identify, and intercept potential behavioral health problems.

Are pregnant women entitled to the same rights of self-determination and bodily integrity as other adults?

This volume represents key scholarship on the issue of parental rights and responsibilities, selected from a dense forest of literature.

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide.

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature.

Originally published in 1981 Law, State and Society confronts many of the most important issues within the developing field of law and society.

What unique challenges face LGBTQ individuals in relationships or who are separating or divorcing, especially now that same-sex couples may marry?

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