Children, family responsibilities, and the state
By: edited by Craig Lind and Heather Keating.
Contributors: Lind, Craig.; Keating, Heather M.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford OX, UK; Malden, MA, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405183017
Subjects: Parent and child (Law) -- Great Britain; Adoption -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain; Parenting -- Government policy -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: Introduction: responsible parents and a responsible state / Craig Lind and Heather Keating; title: Adoption support and the negotiation of ambivalence in family policy and children's services / Barry Luckock; title: Making and breaking family life: adoption, the state, and human rights / Sonia Harris-Short; title: The state as parent: the reluctant parent? the problems of parents of last resort / Judith Masson; title: Child maltreatment in diverse households: challenges to law, theory, and practice / Julia Brophy; title: Perspectives on parenting responsibility: contextualizing values and practices / Val Gillies; title: Holding parents to account: tough on children, tough on the causes of children / Laurence Koffman; title: Youth crime: whose responsibility? / Alex Newbury; title: Governing parenting: is there a case for a policy review and statement of parenting rights and responsibilities? / Clem Henricson; title: The 'change for children'.