Parents and children / edited by Andrew Bainham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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