Barn

Barnets bästa – tillgodoseendet av ett barns behov och intressen – ska vara ledstjärnan vid alla åtgärder som rör barn. Detta har slagits fast både i FN:s konvention om barnets rättigheter och i m&a...

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Barns rätt, barnets bästa, barns rättigheter och barnperspektiv är exempel på ord och begrepp som ofta förekommer i lagar och debatt när vi talar om barn. Men vad innebär begreppen egentligen, i lagar och i praktiken? Vad har barn för rätt? Om det...

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Rättsfrågor som rör människors personliga relationer omfattas av ett stort antal regelverk, privaträttsliga såväl som offentligrättsliga, nationella såväl som överstatliga. I grunden handla...

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Den här boken handlar om samhällets ansvar att skydda barn och unga från olika typer av utsatthet och vad ingripanden innebär för enskilda som berörs. Fokus ligger på tillämpningen lag (1990:52) med särskilda bestämmelser om vård av unga (LVU) och...

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Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even befo...

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Children make up half of the worlds refugees and over 40 per cent of the worlds asylum seekers. However, children are largely invisible in historical and contemporary refugee law. Furthermore, there has been very limited interaction between the bu...

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Att skydda barn från brott har getts en framträdande plats i diskussionen om barnskydd. Trots detta har det varken lett till ökat antal åtal eller fällande domar, i synnerhet vad gäller brott inom familjen. Ett barn kan skyddas från våld och överg...

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Barnahus är en samverkansform mellan myndigheter när barn misstänks vara utsatta för brott. En kärna i verksamheten är att sätta barnets bästa i fokus, men en utmaning för verksamheten är att lagstiftningen begränsar möjligheten till informationsu...

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A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together The Watsons are no strangers to sibling placements but when Casey takes the call from her supervising social worker one frosty January morning, she ...

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Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-...

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Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to...

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Boken behandlar vårdnadsöverflyttningar inom socialtjänsten. Inte bara de vanligaste fallen när ett barn har rotat sig i ett familjehem och betraktar det som sitt eget, utan också när föräldrar brustit i o...

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First published in 1999, this book responds to the meaning given to the welfare principle attracts a great deal of controversy and explores the reasons for the controversy and examines the growing legal significance attached to the principle. In a...

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Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son. Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought...

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Boken innehåller kommentarer paragraf för paragraf till fyra centrala lagar inom internationell äktenskaps- och föräldrarätt. Bryssel II ter-förordningen, som börjar tillämpas den 1 augusti 2022, inneh...

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Som advokat och jurist kan man inta en mängd olika roller. Den allra svåraste är den som särskild företrädare. Den särskilda företrädaren ska, istället för vårdnadshavaren, tillvarata barnets bästa under förundersökning och rättegång. När man får ...

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Syftet med denna bok är att på ett lättillgängligt och tydligt sätt visa vad som gäller vid förvaltningen av barns tillgångar. I många handläggningssituationer uppstår frågan om hur ...

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This open access book explores how legal proceedings in and out-of-court can be matched to the complex problems underlying disputes concerning child custody, residence and contact between parents. It focusses in particular on Nordic experiences of...

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Most people believe that parents have rights to direct their children's education and upbringing. But why? What grounds those rights? How broad is their scope? Can we defend parental rights against those who believe we need more extensive state ed...

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As recently as 1970, child sexual abuse was seen as extremely rare and usually harmless. Thirty years later, the mass media regularly covered child sexual abuse, many people who had been sexually abused as children spoke openly about their experie...

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This book presents papers from an International Symposium on Contact Disputes and Allegations of Domestic Violence: Identifying Best Practices, held in London in May 2017. The editors invited a group of international experts to explain the approac...

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Aimed at parents of 9-16 year olds, this A-Z of questions and answers covers every conceivable dilemma from what age you should give your child a mobile phone, to dealing with internet chat rooms. When can your child legally get a job? When can th...

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When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be bro...

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The good divorce guide. Separating, or contemplating divorce, can feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. But know this: it is going to be OK. In fact, it is going to be better than OK, and sooner than you think. Through our 10-Ste...

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Little Jamey, 2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out partyi...

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How can children grow to realize their inherent human rights and respect the rights of others? This book explores this question through children's literature from Peter Rabbit to Horton Hears a Who! to Harry Potter. The authors investigate childre...

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Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible ...

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The Science and Law of School Segregation and Diversity examines the sources of the disconnect between scientific findings on school segregation and how the U.S. legal system addresses it; evaluates these sources' empirical and legal foundations; ...

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Failure to Flourish contends that we must re-orient the legal system to help families avoid crises and, when conflicts arise, intervene in a manner that heals relationships. To understand how wrong our family law system has gone and what we need t...

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This text is part of the Readings in Crime and Punishment series, a line of readers covering many aspects of the criminal justice, police, and correctional systems. In Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration, Barry C. Feld selects articles wri...

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