This is the first book to explore the canonical narratives, stories, examples, and ideas that legal decisionmakers invoke to explain family law and its governing principles.

Designed as a casebook for a law school course on children and the law, this volume focuses on the ways the law allocates power and responsibility for children in our society.

The third book in Naylor's series finds Alice starting seventh grade, determined to get through the year without making any enemies. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Why is this so? The book provides the answer: greater economic inequality has profoundly changed marriage markets, the way men and women match up when they search for a life partner.

Sex, Preference, and Family brings together seventeen eminent philosophers and legal scholars who offer illuminating and often provocative commentary on sexuality (including sexual behavior, sexual orientation, and the role of pornography ...

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards.

When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as 'a place of brightness, of free expression, of irresistible action'.

This dynamic casebook: - reflects the social diversity of the modern family - examines the social and legal impacts of: the women's movement, the children's rights movement, the fathers' rights movement, domestic violence, changing sexual ...

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.