TY - BOOK AU - Bainham,Andrew TI - Parents and children T2 - Family, law & society SN - 0754626458 AV - KD772 .P37 2008 U1 - 306.874 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Parent and child KW - Parent and child (Law) KW - Family policy KW - Children KW - Legal status, laws, etc N1 - 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 ER -