Children's welfare and the law : the limits of legal intervention
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Children's welfare and the law : the limits of legal intervention
Sage Publication, 1992
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- : pbk
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
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  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book exposes the growing concern that the law and the legal system is dominating the professionals involved in promoting children's welfare and obscuring the real needs of children. King and Trowell see the law as a limited and sometimes inappropriate institution for promoting children's welfare. They argue that many issues only reach the courts because of inadequate preventive measures and machinery for conflict resolution. They conclude with an exploration of successful child care and protection systems operating in countries outside the UK.
Table of Contents
- How the law treats children
- the social and economic context
- parenthood and children as seen by the clinic and as fought over in court
- the court as marital battleground
- child sexual abuse in court and in the clinic
- experts, lawyers and the court experience
- responding to children's needs - an issue of law?
- what kind of decision-making system?
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