The increasingly curious response to children's harms -- Families, child welfare, and the Constitution -- Suitable families and parents in law -- Defining maltreatment and permitting startingly broad state intervention -- Removing children from maltreating families -- Enlisting criminal justice systems in child protection -- Shifting rules regulating the role of expertise -- Rethinking laws regulating child protection -- Appendix A. Defining child maltreatment -- Appendix B. Removing children from their families -- Appendix C. Criminal justice system responses -- Appendix D. Expert and scientific evidence
The increasing curious response to children's harms -- The legal regulation of family life -- Legal responses to child maltreatment -- Returning to child welfare law's foundations -- Appendices
Summary
Analyzes the role legal systems play in family life and traces evolving legal concepts as they apply to child protection. This book helps readers: navigate the various layers of legal regulation - federal and state - involved in child protection and family life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index