Children, Family Responsibilities and the State (Journal of Law and Society Special Issues) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405183012 ISBN 13: 9781405183017

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2008

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Children Family Responsibilities and the State

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Reseña del editor:

This book explores the growing interest in the way in which the state polices, and ought to police, families failing in their responsibilities. Reflects on the increasing social science research and growing legal system involvement in the 'problem' of failing families particularly where children are involved Considers topics ranging from the state's attempts to promote responsible parenting by training parents and by punishing them and their children for their children's antisocial behaviour through to its enthusiasm for creating frameworks for better substituted parenting (through fostering and adoption) Evaluates problems from the perspective of both empirical evidence and the practical and ideological ambitions that government policy is attempting to pursue Brings together commentators from a variety of disciplines who all offer a fresh critique on these matters

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This volume explores the growing interest in the way in which the state polices, and ought to police, families failing in their responsibilities. In considering this subject we also reflect on the responsibilities the state has or ought to bear for families. The chapters consider some of the swiftly developing government policy in this area and reflect on increasing social science research and growing legal system involvement in the ‘problem’ of failing families particularly where children are involved. The scope of the work is fairly broad. It ranges from the state's attempts to foster responsible parenting by training parents and by punishing them and their children for their children's anti-social behaviour to its enthusiasm for creating frameworks for better substituted parenting (through fostering and adoption). The authors consider the problems they identify from the perspective of both empirical evidence and the practical and ideological ambitions that government policy is attempting to pursue.

The volume brings together commentators from a variety of disciplines in an attempt to offer a fresh critique on these matters.

Contributors: Craig Lind, Heather Keating, Barry Luckock, Sonia Harris-Short, Judith Masson, Julia Brophy, Val Gillies, Laurence Koffman, Alex Newbury, Clem Henricson, Nigel Parton

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• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405183012
• ISBN 13: 9781405183017
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Herausgeber: Lind Craig, Keating Heather