ABSTRACT
This volume represents key scholarship on the issue of parental rights and responsibilities, selected from a dense forest of literature. The collection offers an overview of the subject and covers topics such as: underlying rationales of who or what is a parent; legal concepts ofparent and their linkage; the legal parent - accommodating complexity; the nature and scope of parental rights; shared parental responsibility; and parental rights and the state.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|140 pages
Who or what is a parent? Underlying rationales
part II|29 pages
Legal concepts of 'parent' and their linkage
part III|126 pages
The legal parent – accommodating complexity
part IV|126 pages
The nature and scope of parental rights
part V|64 pages
Shared parental responsibility
part VI|56 pages
Parental rights and the state