Research Catalog

Title

Disability, care and family law / edited by Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Clough, Beverley
• Herring, Jonathan

Description

ix, 233 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

"This book explores the series of issues that emerge at the intersection of disability, care and family law. Disability studies is an area of increasing academic interest. As well as a subject in its own right, there has been growing concern to ensure that mainstream subjects diversify and include marginalised voices, including those of disabled people. Family law in modern times is often based on an "able-bodied autonomous norm" but can fit less well with the complexities of living with disability. In response, this book addresses a range of important and highly topical issues: whether care proceedings are used too often in cases where parents have disabilities; how law should respond to children who care for disabled parents; and the care of older family members with disabilities. It also considers the challenges posed by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly around the different institutional and state responsibilities captured in the Convention, and around decision-making for both disabled adults and children. This interdisciplinary collection - with contributors from law, criminology, sociology, and social policy as well as from policy and activist backgrounds - will appeal to academic family lawyers and disability scholars as well as students interested in issues around family law, disability and care"--

Subject

• Parents with disabilities
• People with disabilities > Family relationships
• People with disabilities > Care
• Domestic relations

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part I. Care relations in policy context. Disability and care : theoretical antagonisms revisited / Beverley Clough ; Mothering, disability and care ; beyond the prison wall / Chrissie Rogers ; Children care / Jonathan Herring ; Ageing, disability and family life / Kirstein Rummery -- Part II. Disabled children : interacting with institutional and legal settings. Children's understanding of disabilities / Siân E. Jones ; Deprivation of liberty, parental consent and the rights of the child / Camilla Parker ; Transforming family responsibilities : children with disabilities, parental responsibility and family life / Jo Bridgeman -- Part III. Adults and family relationships. The exam it is impossible to pass : how disabled parents are at risk of having to prove the impossible in care proceedings / Mark Higgins ; "He got down on one knee" : intellectual disability, intimacy and family law / Rosie Harding ; Protecting disabled adults from abusive family relationships : mental capacity, autonomy and vulnerability / Jaime Lindsey ; Law and dementia : family context and the experience of dementia in old age / Margaret Isabel Hall.

Call Number

JFE 21-1646

ISBN

• 9780367232085
• 0367232081

LCCN

2020048689

OCLC

1202228726

Title

Disability, care and family law / edited by Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Clough, Beverley, editor.

Herring, Jonathan, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Disability, care and family law Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021. 9780429328015 (DLC) 2020048690

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1646