Disability, care and family law /
edited by Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring.
- 1 online resource
"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"--
9780429328015 042932801X 9781000375183 1000375188 9781000375114 1000375110
10.4324/9780429328015 doi
Parents with disabilities.
People with disabilities--Family relationships.
People with disabilities--Care.
Domestic relations.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Children with Special Needs
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare
HQ759.912 / .D57 2021
306.874087
"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"--
9780429328015 042932801X 9781000375183 1000375188 9781000375114 1000375110
10.4324/9780429328015 doi
Parents with disabilities.
People with disabilities--Family relationships.
People with disabilities--Care.
Domestic relations.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Children with Special Needs
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare
HQ759.912 / .D57 2021
306.874087