Family law

The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction (New South Wales), focusing on residential care, policing, the provision of legal services and interactions in the Children's Court.

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

This book provides tools to inform debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about the institution of marriage.

Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in the physical world.

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

Navigate the extensive jurisdiction and powers of the Court of Protection.

This innovative textbook uses a problem-based learning (PBL) approach to cover content that is most common to child branch nursing courses.

You're getting divorced.

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.

In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.

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

Comparative in both approach and framework, Family Law, Sex and Society provides a critical exposition of key areas in family law, exploring their evolution and development within their historical, cultural, political and legal context.

Care Planning in Children and Young People's Nursing addresses a selection of the most common concerns that arise when planning care for infants, children and young people within the hospital and community setting.

Our understanding of how pain in early life differs to that in maturity is continuing to increase and develop, using a combination of approaches from basic science, clinical science, and implementation science.

Developing Nursing Practice with Children and Young People explores the context of children s nursing in light of recent policy changes, and looks at contemporary issues and emerging roles within the field.

Revised and updated in light of the reissued Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance and the Children's Act (2004), this concise guide will help health and allied professionals negotiate the complexities of child protection practice, with the aim of preventing abuse and neglect and protecting children from further harm once it has occurred.

Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line.

This interdisciplinary book brings together leading social and legal scholars to tackle the incompatibility of marriage laws with contemporary social reality in Europe.

The Pocket Lawyer series is designed for members of the public who want 'how to' guidance in situations that would normally require expert advice.

Because people's contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope and examining the overall repercussions of criminal justice contact on families of offenders.

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

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use.

This evidence-based text explores children's health and wellbeing from birth to adolescence, taking into account the familial, cultural, social, economic, environmental and global contexts of their lives.

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women''s organisations in northern India.

This book examines how local cultures affect the interpretation of international human rights law.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing is a comprehensive, evidence-based text for nurses and allied health professionals caring for sick newborn infants.

First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women's oppression.

'Caring and the Law' considers the law's response to caring.

Dealing with the interface between the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) movement and the phenomenon of domestic violence against women, this book examines the phenomenon of divorce disputes involving violence through the prism of 'alternative justice' and the dispute resolution mechanisms offered by the ADR movement.

This book continues the themes addressed by its five predecessors in this series by examining the role of the principle of the welfare interests of the child as addressed in international legislation and by international courts.

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 discusses a number of important themes in comparative law: legal metaphors and methodology, the movements of legal ideas and institutions and the mixity they produce, and marriage, an area of law in which culture - or clashes of legal and public cultures - may be particularly evident.

Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of responsibility in family life, law and practice.

It is often asserted that 'A family that prays together, stays together'.

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

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

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

A critical and comparative analysis of the past and future imperatives shaping child and family law around the world.

As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old.

With contributions by recognised experts in the field of education law, this book is a comparative study of the resolution of special education disputes, including via mediation.

"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.

Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.

This conference main theme is "e;Overcoming Global Health Challenges through Nursing Education, Research and Technology"e;.

In custody battles over the children of separated parents, the prevailing standard of evaluating what is in the "e;best interests of the child"e; has been scrutinized because of the discretionary nature of what is "e;best"e; and because of the bias in favour of the child residing in one "e;primary residence.