Family law

This handbook provides a timely synthesis of the international literature that investigates men's experiences of intimate partner violence and help seeking behavior, and considers what the findings mean for research, practice, and policy.

This book focuses on the role and content of the principle of the welfare interests of the child, considers the extent to which the principle has changed following its varied elevation by the introduction of paramountcy and reviews the distinction between welfare interests and rights.

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide.

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

One of the most astonishing aspects of juvenile crime is how little is known about the impact of the policies and programs put in place to fight it.

In the wake of vast social and economic changes, the nuclear family has lost its dominance, both as an ideal and in practice.

A book about family law is necessarily a book both about family life and the role law can and should take in regulating family life.

A book about family law is necessarily a book both about family life and the role law can and should take in regulating family life.

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

In Courthouse Democracy and Minority Rights: Same-Sex Marriage in the States, Robert J.

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.

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 Roman household (familia) was in many respects dramatically different from the modern family.

Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves?

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

There was a time when the phrase "e;American family"e; conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.

Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations.

Policy-makers and the public are increasingly attentive to the role of shari'a in the everyday lives of Western Muslims, with negative associations and public fears growing among their non-Muslim neighbors in the United States and Canada.

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.

Broad agreement exists among politicians and policymakers that the family is a critical institution of American life.

In Children's Rights Under the Law, Professor Samuel M.

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

Red Families v.

Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations.

The study and practice of juvenile law is inherently interdisciplinary--a successful practitioner must understand not only the legal implications in the field, but also have a solid grounding in child psychology, child development, neuroscience, sociology, criminology, and social work.

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races.

Broad agreement exists among politicians and policymakers that the family is a critical institution of American life.

The extraordinary recent increase in rates of cohabitation and non-marital birth presents a major challenge to traditional family law principles, and the legal rules governing cohabitation are thus among the most hotly contested areas of family law and policy today.

In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States.

Red Families v.

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image.

More so than in any other form of forensic evaluation, mental health professionals who conduct parenting plan evaluations must have an understanding of the most current evidence in the areas of child development, optimal parenting plans across various populations, behavioral psychology, family violence, and legal issues to inform their opinions.

The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents an object lesson in the dangers that lie at the intersection of science and criminal law.

There was a time when the phrase "e;American family"e; conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.

Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families.

For many years family law was viewed as a study of the regulation of clearly defined relationships of husband and wife and parent and child.

For many years family law was viewed as a study of the regulation of clearly defined relationships of husband and wife and parent and child.

The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents an object lesson in the dangers that lie at the intersection of science and criminal law.

Over recent decades, tremendous advances in the prevention, medical treatment, and quality of life issues in children and adolescents surviving cancer have spawned a host of research on pediatric psychosocial oncology.

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.

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

Violence in the home is one of the most damaging and widespread of social problems.

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families--require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs.

This book examines the present state of family law in America.

This book examines the present state of family law in America.

Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer.

Men and women have always bargained for sex.

How do lawyers think about and make the important decisions that constitute the day-to-day practice of law?

Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom.