Parents and children /

Parents and children / edited by Andrew Bainham. - liii, 583 pages ; 25 cm. - Family, law & society . - Family, law & society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Becoming a Parent: -- The position of the father in European legislation / The French 'tradition' of anonymous birth: the lines of argument / Families / Do parents influence the sexual orientation of their children? Findings from a longitudinal study of lesbian families / The Status and Obligations of Parenthood: -- Are parents morally obliged to care for their own children? / Conceptions of parental autonomy / The myth of parental rights / Issues of Upbringing: -- Whose life is it anyway? / Religion, culture and conviction - the medical treatment of young children / Punishing parents for the crimes of their children / Am I my child's keeper? Parental liability in negligence / Family values in the classroom? Reconciling parental wishes and children's rights in state schools / Adolescence: -- Rearing adolescents in contemporary society / The parenting of adolescents in Britain today / Rethinking Gillick / Child Support: -- Unwilling fathers and abortion: terminating men's child support obligations / A theory of child support / Parental Separation, Divorce and Children: Parental pre-divorce relations and offspring post-divorce well-being( Alan Booth and Paul R. Amato) -- Inter-parental conflict and children's adaptation to separation and divorce: theory, research and implications for family law, practice and policy / Child custody in the age of children's rights: the search for a just and workable standard / Parent-child contact in Australia: exploring 5 different post-separation patterns of parenting / Child Abuse and State Intervention: -- Lessons from America? Learning from child protection policy in the USA / Children's rights and the use of physical force / What do we know about child neglect? A critical review of the literature and its application to social work practice / Emotional signs / Social Parenthood and Adoption: -- Cinderella's challenge - adjustment to stepfamilies in the 1990s / Parental responsibility and parenting - the needs of accommodated children in long-term foster-care / The legal management of (social) parenthood: adoption and Dutch family policy / Adoption: the nature of policy shifts in England and Wales, 1972 - 2002 / Marie-Therese Meulders-Klein -- Nadine Lefaucheur -- assisted reproduction and the law( Rebecca Probert -- Susan Golombok and Fiona Tasker -- John Eekelaar -- Colin M. Macleod -- Phillip Montague -- Michael Freeman -- Caroline Bridge -- Raymond Arthur -- Stanley Yeo -- Laura Lundy -- Stephen A. Small and Gay Eastman -- John C. Coleman -- Michael Freeman -- Sally Sheldon -- Scott Altman -- Gordon T. Harold and Mervyn Murch -- Barbara Bennett Woodhouse -- Bruce Smyth -- Caroline Keenan -- Jane Fortin -- Karen Tanner and Danielle Turney -- Stephen Wolkind -- Galia Bar-Hava and Jan Pryor -- Gillian Schofield -- Carolus van Nijnatten and Willibrord de Graaf -- Jane Lewis. Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Part VII. Part VIII.

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Parent and child.
Parent and child (Law)
Family policy.
Children--Legal status, laws, etc.

KD772 / .P37 2008 K700 / .P37 2008

306.874

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