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This volume considers the impact that changing family norms have
had on the responsibilities that the law allocates to people in
family relationships. Contributions are drawn from a wide variety
of jurisdictions in which scholars, lawyers, judges and
policy-makers have been trying to discern what the appropriate
correlation should be between the responsibilities that people
undertake in family settings and the law that regulates family
responsibilities. Part I looks at the changes that have occurred in
adult relationships and what they have done for our sense of the
family responsibilities that adults take for one another. Part II
reflects on the changing nature of the parental relationship in
order to reconsider the way in which changing family structures
affect the responsibilities we think people raising children should
have. The third part brings the rights discourse that has dominated
jurisprudence for much of the last fifty years into the discussion
of family transformation and the responsibilities to which it gives
rise. In the final section the authors reflect on the difficulties
of trying to resolve the meaning of responsibility in a world of
changing families. The collection brings together some of the most
eminent and imaginative scholars and judges working in this area.
It will be a valuable resource for all those interested in the
legal regulation of the transforming family.
Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to
rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of
responsibility in family life, law and practice. Divided into four
parts, the study considers the nature of family responsibility;
constructions of children's responsibilities; shifting conceptions
of family responsibilities; and family, responsibility and the law.
The collection brings together leading experts from the disciplines
of sociology, socio-legal studies and law to discuss
responsibilities prior to birth, responsibilities for children, as
well as responsibilities of children and of the state towards
family members. The volume informs and challenges the developing
conceptualization of responsibilities which arise in
interdependent, intimate and caring relationships and their legal
regulation. It will be of great interest to researchers and
practitioners working in this complex field.
This collection brings together some of the most eminent and
exciting authors researching family responsibilities to examine
understandings of the day to day responsibilities which people
undertake within families and the role of the law in the
construction of those understandings. The authors explore a range
of questions fundamental to our understanding of 'responsibility'
in family life: To whom, and to what ends, are family members
responsible? Is responsibility primarily a matter of care? Can we
fulfil our family responsibilities by paying those to whom we owe
responsibility? Or by paying others to fulfil our caring
obligations for us? In each of these circumstances the chapters in
this collection explore what it means to have family
responsibilities, what constitutes an adequate performance of such
responsibilities and the point at which the state intervenes. At
the heart of this collection is an interest in the way in which the
changing family affects people's perception and exercise their
family responsibilities, and how the law attempts to regulate (and
understand) those responsibilities. The essays range across intact
and separated or fragmented families, from lone and shared
parenting in single homes to caring across households (and even
across international boundaries) to reflect on the actual caring
responsibilities of family members and on the fulfilment of
financial responsibilities in families. This collection seeks to
advance our understanding of the attempts of the law, and its
limits, in regulating the responsibilities which family members
take for each other.
This volume considers the impact that changing family norms have
had on the responsibilities that the law allocates to people in
family relationships. Contributions are drawn from a wide variety
of jurisdictions in which scholars, lawyers, judges and
policy-makers have been trying to discern what the appropriate
correlation should be between the responsibilities that people
undertake in family settings and the law that regulates family
responsibilities. Part I looks at the changes that have occurred in
adult relationships and what they have done for our sense of the
family responsibilities that adults take for one another. Part II
reflects on the changing nature of the parental relationship in
order to reconsider the way in which changing family structures
affect the responsibilities we think people raising children should
have. The third part brings the rights discourse that has dominated
jurisprudence for much of the last fifty years into the discussion
of family transformation and the responsibilities to which it gives
rise. In the final section the authors reflect on the difficulties
of trying to resolve the meaning of responsibility in a world of
changing families. The collection brings together some of the most
eminent and imaginative scholars and judges working in this area.
It will be a valuable resource for all those interested in the
legal regulation of the transforming family.
Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to
rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of
responsibility in family life, law and practice. Divided into four
parts, the study considers the nature of family responsibility;
constructions of children's responsibilities; shifting conceptions
of family responsibilities; and family, responsibility and the law.
The collection brings together leading experts from the disciplines
of sociology, socio-legal studies and law to discuss
responsibilities prior to birth, responsibilities for children, as
well as responsibilities of children and of the state towards
family members. The volume informs and challenges the developing
conceptualization of responsibilities which arise in
interdependent, intimate and caring relationships and their legal
regulation. It will be of great interest to researchers and
practitioners working in this complex field.
This collection brings together some of the most eminent and
exciting authors researching family responsibilities to examine
understandings of the day to day responsibilities which people
undertake within families and the role of the law in the
construction of those understandings. The authors explore a range
of questions fundamental to our understanding of 'responsibility'
in family life: To whom, and to what ends, are family members
responsible? Is responsibility primarily a matter of care? Can we
fulfil our family responsibilities by paying those to whom we owe
responsibility? Or by paying others to fulfil our caring
obligations for us? In each of these circumstances the chapters in
this collection explore what it means to have family
responsibilities, what constitutes an adequate performance of such
responsibilities and the point at which the state intervenes. At
the heart of this collection is an interest in the way in which the
changing family affects people's perception and exercise their
family responsibilities, and how the law attempts to regulate (and
understand) those responsibilities. The essays range across intact
and separated or fragmented families, from lone and shared
parenting in single homes to caring across households (and even
across international boundaries) to reflect on the actual caring
responsibilities of family members and on the fulfilment of
financial responsibilities in families. This collection seeks to
advance our understanding of the attempts of the law, and its
limits, in regulating the responsibilities which family members
take for each other.
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