Family law, gender and the state : text, cases and materials /
Alison Diduck, Felicity Kaganas.
- 2nd ed.
- Oxford : Hart, 2006.
- xliv, 753 p. ; 25 cm.
The law is stated as at August 2005
Acknowledgements. - Table of cases. - Table of legislation. - Sect. 1. What is a family? 1. Law and "The family" 2. Legal status and personal relationships. 3. The adult-child-state relationship: reproduction and child-rearing. 4. Children and their mothers and fathers. 5. Household economics. - Sect 2. The principles behind the law. 6. Equality: dividing the family assets. 7. Equal status under the Children Act 1989 - parental responsibility. 8. The welfare principle. 9. A public or private matter - child abuse. 10. A public or private matter?Domestic violence. 11. A public or private matter - alternative dispute resolution and negotiation. - Sect 3. Recording family relationships. 12. Violence and separation. 13. Making ends meet. 14. Dissolution of legal relationships: The process and its consequences. 15. Children in non-marital relationships and financial adjustment on the breakdown of marital relationships. 16. Decisions about children's upbringing: parental responsibility, the child's wishes, the medical profession and the court. 17. Child protection. - Bibliography. - Index.