Children and their families contact, rights, and welfare /

Children and their families contact, rights, and welfare / [electronic resource] : edited by Andrew Bainham ... [et al.] for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. - Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2003. - xiii, 415 p.

"This collection of essays is the product of the third seminar series held by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group in 2002."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Contact and children's perspectives on parental relationships / Making and breaking relationships: children and their families -- Children's contact with relatives / Contact as a right and obligation / Connecting contact: contact in a private law context / Supporting cross-household parenting: ideas about 'the family', policy formation and service development across jurisdictions / Squaring the circle-the social, legal and welfare organisation of contact / Contact: mothers, welfare and rights / Real love that dare not speak its name / Fathers after divorce / Contact for children subject to state intervention / Contact and the adoption reform / Adoption and contact: a research review / Assisted reporduction and parental relationships / Contact in containment / Making contact work in international cases: promoting contact whilst preventing international parental child abduction / Disputed contact cases in the courts / Working and not working contact after divorce / Liz Trinder -- Judy Dunn -- Jan Pryor -- Andrew Bainham -- Jonathan Herring -- Mavis Maclean and Katrin Mueller-Johnson -- Adrian James -- Shelley Day Sclater and Felicity Kaganas -- Bob Geldof -- Bob Simpson, Julie Jessop and Peter McCarthy -- Jo Miles and Bridget Lindley -- John Eekelaar -- Elsbeth Neil -- Martin Richards -- Belinda Brooks-Gordon -- Donna Smith -- Ann Buchanan and Joan Hunt -- Liz Trinder.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Parent and child (Law)--Great Britain.
Children of divorced parents--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain.
Domestic relations--Great Britain.


Electronic books.

KD772.A75 / C48 2003