Addressing Childhood Trauma: Phenomena as a roadmap to response
Steven Marans, Hilary Hahn, and Carrie Epstein
Childhood exposure to violence, and resultant traumatic dysregulation pose immediate and long-term threats to individual development and to public health. Recognizing the phenomena and ...
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Adoption Versus Alternative Forms of Care
Brian Sloan
This chapter, which focuses on English law, considers preference for adoption in some circumstances from a comparative law perspective, before comparing the treatment of adoption to that of ...
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Anthropology and Islamic Law
John R. Bowen
The anthropology of Islamic law is concerned centrally with observing and analyzing practices governed by explicit norms that are given Islamic justification, from commercial transactions ...
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The ART of Parentage
Naomi Cahn
The world of reproductive technology, including donor gametes and surrogacy, brings new challenges to identifying parents and respecting children’s rights. An intending parent—married or ...
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The Changing Landscape of Funding Public Elementary and Secondary Education in the United States
R. Craig Wood
Funding of elementary and secondary education in the United States reflects a complex assortment of state constitutional mandates, federal laws, state statutes, and federal and state rules ...
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The Child Protection System
Richard J. Gelles
This chapter examines the child protective system in the United States by first examining the scaffolding created by federal legislation and federal funding. Next, it reviews three ...
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Children and Juvenile Justice Law: The Possibilities of a Relational-Rights Approach
Kathryn Hollingsworth
Despite comprehensive international standards, children’s rights continue to be breached in juvenile justice systems around the world. This chapter suggests that conceptualizing children, ...
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Children at Risk of School Dropout
Lucinda Ferguson
This chapter begins by outlining the routes through which children drop out of school. It then draws on the failings of the English system to suggest six key lessons for other ...
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Children in Fragile Families
Sara McLanahan, Kate Jaeger, and Kristin Catena
Families formed by unmarried parents increased dramatically in the United States during the latter half of the 20th century. To learn more about these families, a team of researchers at ...
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Children’s Participation in Decisions about Parenting Arrangements
Patrick Parkinson and Judith Cashmore
This chapter explores the different ways that children can participate in custody and child protection cases. It is not only articulate older children and young people who ought to have an ...
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Children’s Religious Freedom in State Schools: Exemptions, participation, and education
Myriam Hunter-Henin
This chapter focuses on children’s rights to religious freedom raised against state policies in state schools. It analyzes the distinction usually drawn between religious education (RE) ...
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Children’s Right to Privacy
Ayelet Blecher-Prigat
This chapter examines how (if at all) children’s right to privacy is concretely implemented in the legal realm. It considers children’s privacy when they are involved in legal proceedings, ...
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Comparative Family Law
Jens M. Scherpe
This chapter discusses family law in relation to comparative law. It first considers whether family law can be a subject fit for comparative study in a constantly changing world before ...
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Considerations for Policymaking Affecting Adolescents in the Liberal Democracy
Vivian E. Hamilton
Adolescents are developmentally distinct from both children and fully mature adults in ways that are relevant to policymaking. This chapter discusses some of those developmental differences ...
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Contested Child Protection Policies
Elizabeth Bartholet
This chapter discusses the tension over recent decades in child welfare policy in the United States between two conflicting value systems, one focusing on parent and group rights over ...
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Equal Parenting Time: The case for a legal presumption
William V. Fabricius
This chapter reviews several sources of evidence bearing on the question of whether equal parenting time with both parents is in the best interests of children of divorce. First, the ...
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Family Law
Khiara M. Bridges
This chapter examines the dual system of family law in the USA. It observes that the USA has a set of laws that regulates more affluent families and an entirely distinct set of laws that ...
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Fiduciary Principles in Family Law
Elizabeth S. Scott and Ben Chen
Family members bear primary responsibility for the care of dependent and vulnerable individuals in our society, and therefore family relationships are infused with fiduciary obligation. ...
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