ABSTRACT
This volume brings together some of the best journal articles of the last twenty years which deal with various aspects of the relationship between parents and children. Adopting an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, the book reproduces articles from a variety of journals in law and the social sciences. The book is divided into eight parts dealing, respectively, with becoming a parent; the status and obligations of parenthood; issues of upbringing; adolescence; child support; parental separation, divorce and children; child abuse and state intervention; social parenthood and adoption. The volume includes a substantial introduction by the editor.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART I: BECOMING A PARENT
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PART II: THE STATUS AND OBLIGATIONS OF PARENTHOOD
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PART III: ISSUES OF UPBRINGING
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PART IV: ADOLESCENCE
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PART V: CHILD SUPPORT
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PART VI: PARENTAL SEPARATION, DIVORCE AND CHILDREN
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PART VII: CHILD ABUSE AND STATE INTERVENTION
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PART VIII: SOCIAL PARENTHOOD AND ADOPTION