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Virtual Parentalism, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Virtual Parentalism, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Washington and Lee Law Review
Parents, not Laws, ultimately protect children both online and offline. If legislation places adults at legal risk because of the presence of children in virtual worlds, adults will exit those worlds, and children will be isolated into separate spaces. This will not improve safety for children. Instead, this Article suggests that Congress enact measures that encourage filtering technology and parental tools that will both protect children in virtual worlds, and protectfree speech online.
In Family Law, Love's Got A Lot To Do With It: A Response To Philip Shaver, Terry A. Maroney
In Family Law, Love's Got A Lot To Do With It: A Response To Philip Shaver, Terry A. Maroney
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In a contribution to this Symposium on Law and Emotion: Re-Envisioning Family Law, Phillip Shaver and his co-authors succinctly encapsulate contemporary psychological theory on interpersonal attachment -- primarily parent-child attachment and its role in creating lifelong attachment patterns -- and seek to outline the relevance of such research for both social policy and law. This Comment demonstrates that many areas of family law already seek to cultivate and reward attachment. But attachment is not and cannot be the sole-or even, perhaps, the most important-factor driving most legal determinations. Recognizing the importance of secure attachment does not answer difficult questions about …