Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841138800 ISBN 13 : 9781841138800

Editeur : Hart Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

This book analyses the concept of parental responsibility in relation to areas such as criminal responsibility, juvenile offending, education, religion, medical treatment and child support. This is the first book to examine this unexplored area. The editors are leading scholars in family, criminal, and medical law. It will be of interest to family law academics, family lawyers and sociologists. This book examines the idea of 'parental responsibility' in English law and what is expected of a responsible parent. The scope of 'parental responsibility', a key concept in family law, is undefined and often ambiguous. Yet, to date, more attention has been paid to how individuals acquire parental responsibility than to the question of the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities they have once they obtain it. This book redresses the balance by providing the first sustained examination of the different elements of parental responsibility, bringing together leading scholars to comment on specific aspects of its operation. The book begins by exploring the conceptual underpinnings of parental responsibility in the context of parents' (and children's) rights. It then discusses the acquisition, exercise and ending of parental responsibility. The analysis highlights the inherent constraints and limitations of 'parental responsibility' and how its scope has deliberately been curtailed in certain contexts. The book then considers what parental responsibility allows and requires in specific areas, eg, naming a child, education, religious upbringing, medical treatment, corporal punishment, dealing with any contracts entered into or property owned by the child, representing the child in legal proceedings, consenting to a child's marriage or civil partnership and the law's response to the death of a child. In the final section, the idea of the 'responsible parent' is considered in the contexts of child support, contact, tort, and criminal law.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rebecca Probert is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Warwick. Stephen Gilmore is a Lecturer in Family Law at King's College London. Jonathan Herring is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Exeter College, Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hart Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841138800
• ISBN 13: 9781841138800
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 366
• Éditeur: Probert Professor Rebecca, Gilmore Professor Stephen, Herring Jonathan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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