Family law

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.

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults.

This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation.

The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions offers an introduction to therapies produced as a result of the popularity of attachment studies.

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).

First comparative study of major special needs financial planning mechanisms, namely guardianship, enduring/lasting powers of attorney, and special needs trusts.

The current Syrian crisis has its roots in the sectarian nature of the country's multi-religious society.

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade.

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.

This book addresses South Asian Muslim women's lived experiences, whilst questioning dominant concepts of agency.

This volume brings together some of the best journal articles of the last twenty years which deal with various aspects of the relationship between parents and children.

The current Syrian crisis has its roots in the sectarian nature of the country's multi-religious society.

This book provides a textured understanding of intimate violence across the unlimited stretch of human relationships, institutions, and social structures.

Violence Against Children adopts in its title the exhortation of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, "e;Making Human Rights Real,"e; which also represents the leitmotif of the book.

Providing a comprehensive yet concise guide for trainee doctors, neonatal nurses and midwives, Essential Neonatal Medicine continues to be an indispensable resource that combines the depth and breadth of a textbook with the efficiency of a revision guide.

Das Erwachsenenschutzrecht ist inzwischen seit gut zehn Jahren in Kraft und hat sich in der Praxis etabliert.

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

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

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

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

Children's rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law.

Over the past two decades, virtually all areas of family law have undergone major doctrinal and theoretical changes - from the definition of marriage, to the financial and parenting consequences of divorce, to the legal construction of parenthood.

First published in 2005.

Now completely revised and significantly expanded, The Military Divorce Handbook continues to be the go-to resource for understanding the issues involved and effectively representing military personnel and their spouses in domestic situations--divorce, separation, custody, support, and division of property.

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade.

Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism presents some of the finest essays on social justice, environment, rights and governance.

This comparative study investigates the place of Hindu divorce in the Indian legal system and considers whether it offers a way out of a matrimonial crisis situation for women.

This book proposes a new ''parent-partner'' legal status emphasizing obligations of parents to each other and to their children.

This work is an exploratory examination of the experiences, motivations, and coping mechanisms of women who are involved in intimate relationships with registered sexual offenders.

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.

This book presents an empirical examination of consent-seeking among Pashtun Muslims in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), to determine whether cultural norms and beliefs have largely come to diverge from the principles of consent in Islamic law and jurisprudence.

When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you and the other parent can create your own custody plan and agree on child support.

This book explores how the concept of fairness is used in different legal fields to ensure that the laws we live under are just and reasonable.

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

Developing Practical Nursing Skills helps you learn and perfect the practical skills required to become a qualified nurse.

About half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce, and most of these divorces result in unnecessary collateral damage.

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.

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.

Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse.

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

Although same-sex marriage is legal nationwide, there is no federal recognition for domestic partners or civil union registrants, and many couples have messy and unresolved agreements and/or registrations that need to be cleaned up.

Anyone who works within children and adolescent mental health services will tell you what a challenging and complex world it is.

With the accelerating movement of individuals and families across national borders, the intersections of cultural and legal frameworks have become increasingly complex.

First published in 1997, this book marks a culmination of a three year research programme focused upon the incidence of domestic violence in Leicester.

The only pediatric prescribing guide organized by diagnosis for ease of useThis prescribing guide, organized uniquely by diagnosis, facilitates speedy drug information retrieval for advanced health care providers in all settings involved in the primary care management of newborns through adolescents.