Child Welfare and Rights - A Contemporary Family Law Analysis

This book focuses on the role and content of the principle of welfare interests of the child, considering the extent to which the principle has changed following its varied elevation by the introduction of paramountcy and reviews the distinction between welfare interests and rights.It will be useful to lawyers, academics and researchers.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Children's rights v welfare interests
1. Welfare interests and legal rights: Complementary or conflicting?
2. Child as a legal entity
3. Family life and family breakdown
Part II: Hybrid family law and implications for children's rights
4. Commercial surrogacy and parental abduction
5. Adoption from state care and intercountry adoption
6. Unaccompanied migrant minors, detention and trafficking
7. Poverty, discrimination and public servicess
Part III: Coherence in family law: Balancing welfare interests and rights
8. Family law coherence: Welfare interests and rights
Book Conclusion

About the author

Kerry O'Halloran - lawyer, social worker and academic - formerly Adjunct Professor to the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at QUT, Brisbane and Assistant Director of the Centre for Voluntary Action, University of Ulster, has served on a social care tribunal and on a HSS trust adoption panel, has advised the Irish government on law reform matters, and served in a consultancy capacity to various bodies. His many books include several on child care and protection, international adoption, human rights and family law.

Summary

This book focuses on the role and content of the principle of welfare interests of the child, considering the extent to which the principle has changed following its varied elevation by the introduction of paramountcy and reviews the distinction between welfare interests and rights.It will be useful to lawyers, academics and researchers.

Product details

• Authors: Kerry O'Halloran, Kerry (Queensland University of Techn O''halloran, O'Halloran Kerry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032820934
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3282093-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Children and the Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, LAW / Family Law / Children, LAW / Child Advocacy, Family Law, Moral and social purpose of education, Child welfare, Child welfare and youth services, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Moral & social purpose of education