Family, Child & Social Welfare Law

The law has long been interested in marriage and conjugal cohabitation and in the range of public and private obligations that accrue from intimate living. This collection of classic articles explores that legal interest, while at the same time locating marriage and cohabitation within a range of in..

This volume represents key scholarship on the issue of parental rights and responsibilities, selected from a dense forest of literature. The collection offers an overview of the subject and covers topics such as: underlying rationales of who or what is a parent; legal concepts of ’parent’ and their ..

Perspectives in Child Care Policy presents four different value perspectives on child care policy; laissez-faire; state paternalism; defence of the birth family and children's rights. Each perspective differs in its underlying values, concepts and assumptions concerning children, families, the right..

Perspectives in Child Care Policy presents four different value perspectives on child care policy; laissez-faire; state paternalism; defence of the birth family and children's rights. Each perspective differs in its underlying values, concepts and assumptions concerning children, families, the right..

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This collection explores the extent to which changing family norms, arrangements and structures challenge our understandings of the responsibilities which families and family members undertake, and the role of the law in providing a framework for their regulation...

Marriage migration is a controversial and problematic issue in the UK as elsewhere in Europe. This timely analysis is a comprehensive examination of the regulation of marriage migration into the UK. With international relevance, the book uses the analysis to examine the relationship between governme..

Marriage migration is a controversial and problematic issue in the UK as elsewhere in Europe. This timely analysis is a comprehensive examination of the regulation of marriage migration into the UK. With international relevance, the book uses the analysis to examine the relationship between governme..

Over the past two decades, the resolution of family disputes has undergone major change. This 'paradigm shift' has reshaped the practice of family law and has fundamentally altered the way in which disputing families interact with the legal system. This volume examines the contours of the changes in..

This collection examines ideas of responsibility and their impact upon the family and upon the way family law is conceived and enforced. It explores the concept of responsibility by examining parental responsibility for children and expectations we have of the responsibilities that children have (or..

This collection examines ideas of responsibility and their impact upon the family and upon the way family law is conceived and enforced. It explores the concept of responsibility by examining parental responsibility for children and expectations we have of the responsibilities that children have (or..

This collection of fourteen substantive and highly innovative essays, along with its insightful introduction, seeks to explore the different dimensions of care that shape social, legal and political contexts. By highlighting the points of connection and tension between these diverse international an..