Bridges family law and current psychological research to shape understanding of legal doctrine and policy Family law encompasses legislation related to domestic relationships-marriages, parenthood, civil unions, guardianship, and more. No other area of law touches so closely to home, or is changing at such a rapid pace-in fact, family law is ......
Bridges family law and current psychological research to shape understanding of legal doctrine and policy Family law encompasses legislation related to domestic relationships-marriages, parenthood, civil unions, guardianship, and more. No other area of law touches so closely to home, or is changing at such a rapid pace-in fact, family law is so ......
Critical Perspectives on Domestic Violence Responses
A look at gun control, campus sexual assault, immigration, and more that considers the future of responses to domestic violence Domestic violence is commonly assumed to be a bipartisan, nonpolitical issue, with politicians of all stripes claiming to work to end family violence. Nevertheless, the Violence Against Women Act expired for over 500 ......
Critical Perspectives on Domestic Violence Responses
A look at gun control, campus sexual assault, immigration, and more that considers the future of responses to domestic violence Domestic violence is commonly assumed to be a bipartisan, nonpolitical issue, with politicians of all stripes claiming to work to end family violence. Nevertheless, the Violence Against Women Act expired for over 500 ......
How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families
Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change At the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and a kindly, all-knowing judge would assist children and families. But the ......
Addresses key topics in child custody evaluation. This book describes data-based approaches to understanding and assessing relevant child, parent, and family factors. Going beyond the basics, it gives in-depth attention to issues like, how to evaluate allegations of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and child alienation.
Examines marriage, familial gender relations, and the law through the lens of elopement notices. In conjunction with legal treatises, court records, and prescriptive literature, this book highlights the tenuous relationships among marriage law, marital ideals, and lived experience in the early Republic, an era of cultural and economic change.
Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era
The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. However, the voices of Indigenous parents were largely missing from the Report.
