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Addressing Early Marriage: Culturally Competent Practices And Romanian Roma (“Gypsy”) Communities, Judith Hale Reed
Addressing Early Marriage: Culturally Competent Practices And Romanian Roma (“Gypsy”) Communities, Judith Hale Reed
Judith A Hale Reed
Early marriage affects many communities around the world. Examples of commonly practiced early marriage can be found today in the U.S., India, Syria, and many other places. Although most countries have instituted minimum age laws for marriage, so that legal marriage can only occur after an age set by law, early marriage is still practiced for tradition, control, security, and other reasons. This article explores the harms of early marriage and the international instruments meant to defend against these harms in Part II. Part III reviews theoretical perspectives from legal anthropology and presents a case study of early marriage in …
Assessing Public Health Strategies For Advancing Child Protection: Human Trafficking As A Case Study, Jonathan Todres
Assessing Public Health Strategies For Advancing Child Protection: Human Trafficking As A Case Study, Jonathan Todres
Jonathan Todres
Ensuring the well-being of all children is one of the great challenges of our time. Despite concerted efforts in the United States to protect children, research reveals that millions of children suffer harm each year. Frequently, when policymakers and child advocates speak of “child protection,” they focus primarily on abuse and neglect in the home. Often, child protection does not contemplate violence against children in the community. The inside/outside-the-home divide is somewhat of a false dichotomy, however, as the two realms are interrelated. Children who suffer abuse and neglect in the home are frequently at heightened risk of exploitation outside …
Understanding The Dennis Ferguson Debate: Part 2, Jodie O'Leary
Understanding The Dennis Ferguson Debate: Part 2, Jodie O'Leary
Jodie O'Leary
Extract: Recently I received a cause invitation from an old school friend on Facebook. The cause was to support micro-chipping of all paedophiles. I rejected that invitation. All I could think of was the microchip embedded in my Labrador. The way I understand that chip to work is that if someone finds my dog wandering the streets they can take him to a vet or the RSPCA who will then scan the chip and return him to me. The obvious question seemed to be: how would such a measure help protect children? After all, protection of children is the goal …
From Undermining Child Protection Statutes To Creating Exceptions To Prohibitions Against Racial Discrimination In Public Accommodations: The Unsettling Consequences Of Mischaracterizing The Police Reporting Privilege, Peter Zablotsky
Peter Zablotsky
No abstract provided.
Family-Related Issues In Social And Welfare Law. Legal Methods For Research On Children And Families, Titti Mattsson
Family-Related Issues In Social And Welfare Law. Legal Methods For Research On Children And Families, Titti Mattsson
Titti Mattsson
No abstract provided.
Zoning For Child Protection: Declaring Communities Unfit For Child Rearing, James G. Dwyer
Zoning For Child Protection: Declaring Communities Unfit For Child Rearing, James G. Dwyer
James G Dwyer
Current zoning law fails to reflect the reality that some geographical areas, however suitable they might be for residence by adults, are not suitable for children, because of the social and physical environment that adult residents have created. The law governing children's welfare and family relationships likewise reflects no consideration of the impact that the quality of parents’ or potential parents’ community can have on children. Yet the world outside children's homes can dramatically affect their well being, even presenting threats to their very survival. This Article is the first to recommend that governments declare some communities unfit for residence …
Children’S Rights To Representation: A Comparison Between Sweden And England, Titti Mattsson, Eva Ryrstedt
Children’S Rights To Representation: A Comparison Between Sweden And England, Titti Mattsson, Eva Ryrstedt
Titti Mattsson
In both England and in Sweden, the approach to a child's right to representation differs between public law cases and private law cases regarding legal custody/parental responsibility, residence or contact. This article discusses the basis for this distinction, and how far it accords with the best interests of the child.
9. Domestic Violence And Child Protection: Confronting The Dilemmas In Moving From Family Court To Dependency Court., Thomas D. Lyon, Mindy B. Mechanic
9. Domestic Violence And Child Protection: Confronting The Dilemmas In Moving From Family Court To Dependency Court., Thomas D. Lyon, Mindy B. Mechanic
Thomas D. Lyon
Achieving Batterer Accountability In The Child Protection System, Leigh Goodmark
Achieving Batterer Accountability In The Child Protection System, Leigh Goodmark
Leigh S. Goodmark
No abstract provided.