Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era
This book explores the experiences of Aboriginal mothers of Stolen Generations children, providing new insights into our understanding of this era. It reflects critically on human rights processes based on truth-telling, raising important issues about who gets to speak at such processes and whose voices are heard and validated.
Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice
"Baby safe haven" laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location-such as a hospital or fire station-were established in every state between 1999 and 2009. Promoted during a time of heated public debate over policies on abortion, sex education, teen pregnancy, adoption, ......
Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice
"Baby safe haven" laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location-such as a hospital or fire station-were established in every state between 1999 and 2009. Promoted during a time of heated public debate over policies on abortion, sex education, teen pregnancy, adoption, ......
By utilizing socio-legal principles as the theoretical underpinnings to each chapter, the contributors offer novel perspectives on how diverse societies across the globe shape family law and ways in which norms within family law may be changed over time.
By utilizing socio-legal principles as the theoretical underpinnings to each chapter, the contributors offer novel perspectives on how diverse societies across the globe shape family law and ways in which norms within family law may be changed over time.
American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human development, law rarely contemplates the complex ways in which it interacts with children and sexuality. Just as the law circumscribes children to a narrow range of roles-either as entirely sexless beings ......
How Judges Decide Asylum Claims and Asylum Rights of Unaccompanied Minor
This book presents a gripping analysis of the hidden factors that affect the asylum claims and rights of unaccompanied minors in the US. This book reveals how politics, economics, and social pressures shape the decisions of immigration judges and how federal courts respond to policies impacting these vulnerable minors.
