Family, Child & Social Welfare Law

This book explores the rights of older people and their quality of care once they are living in a care home, and considers how we can commence the journey towards a human rights framework to ensure decent and dignified care for older people. The book takes a comparative approach to challenges facing..

Understanding Family Law is a clear and concise book for students of family law. The text is easy to digest, and even the most complex issues are presented in a user-friendly way...

Family life is now recognised as a potential site of vulnerabilities, where care work can go unacknowledged, and be a source of social and economic hardship. Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law addresses the strong relationships that exist between vulnerability, care and dependency in particular co..

This title was first published in 2002. In this book, signifiers such as gender, worker and family are unpacked and suggestions are made as to how common usage of these signifiers reinforce existing practices and act as barriers to change. Particular attention is paid to the areas of equal opportuni..

One of the major issues in the reconciliation of changing civic ideals with religious tenets is gender equality, and this is an ongoing challenge in both domestic and international affairs. Examining this conflict within the context of a range of issues including marriage and divorce, reproductive d..