Responsibility, law, and the family
By: [edited] by Jo Bridgeman, Craig Lind, and Heather Keating.
Contributors: Bridgeman, Jo.; Lind, Craig.; Keating, Heather M.
Publisher: Asgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780754671091
Subjects: Parent and child (Law) -- England; Parent and child (Law) -- Wales; Responsibility; Parenting -- Government policy -- England; Parenting -- Government policy -- Wales
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualising family responsibility / Jo Bridgeman and Heather Keating; title: The right to responsible parents / Michael Freeman; title: Together forever? : the rights and responsibilities of adult children and their parents / Jonathan Herring; title: Being a responsible mother : new labour policy discourses versus lone mothers' contextualised accounts / Harriet Churchill; title: State responsibility and the abuse of vulnerable older people : is there a case for a public law to protect vulnerable older people from abuse? / John Williams; title: Responsible children and children's responsibilities : sibling caretaking and babysitting by school-age children / Virginia Morrow; title: Being responsible, becoming responsible, and having responsibility thrust upon them : constructing the "responsibility" of children and parents / Heather Keating; title: Responsibility, children, and childhood / Adrian James; title: Engaging fathers' responsibility, law, and the "problem of fatherhood" / Richard Collier; title: Responsible fathers : paternity, the blood tie and family responsibility / Craig Lind; title: Being responsible : "good" parents and children's autonomy / Amanda Wade; title: Parental responsibility, responsible parenting, and legal regulation / Jo Bridgeman; title: Family law and family responsibility / Alison Diduck; title: Regulating for responsibility in an age of complex families / Craig Lind.