Responsible parents and parental responsibility
By: edited by Rebecca Probert, Stephen Gilmore, and Jonathan Herring.
Contributors: Probert, Rebecca.; Gilmore, Stephen.; Herring, Jonathan.
Publisher: Hart Pub.; Hart Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781841138800
Subjects: Parent and child (Law) -- Great Britain; Parents -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain; Children's rights -- Great Britain
Other titles: Responsible parents & parental responsibility
Description: This book examines the idea of 'parental responsibility' in English law and what is expected of a responsible parent. The scope of 'parental responsibility', a key concept in family law, is undefined and often ambiguous. Yet, to date, more attention has been paid to how individuals acquire parental responsibility than to the question of the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities they have once they obtain it. This book redresses the balance by providing the first sustained examination of the different elements of parental responsibility, bringing together leading scholars to comment on specific aspects of its operation. The book begins by exploring the conceptual underpinnings of parental responsibility in the context of parents' and children's rights. The analysis highlights the inherent constraints and limitations of 'parental responsibility' and how its scope has deliberately been curtailed in certain contexts. The book then considers what parental responsibility allows and requires in specific areas, for example, naming a child, education, religious upbringing, medical treatment, corporal punishment, dealing with any contracts entered into or property owned by the child, representing the child in legal proceedings, consenting to a child's marriage or civil partnership and the law's response to the death of a child. In the final section, the idea of the 'responsible parent' is considered in the contexts of child support, contact, tort, and criminal law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.