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Author Sheldon, Sally

Title Fathers' Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective
Published Oxford : Hart Pub., 2006

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Description 1 online resource (190 pages)
Contents Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Acknowledgements; Preface; Author Biographies; Contents; 1. Fathers' Rights, Fatherhood and Law Refore -- International Perspectives; 2. 'Robbed of their Families'? Fathers' Rights Discourses in Canadian; 3. 'The Outlaw Fathers Fight Back': Fathers' Rights Groups, Fathers 4 Justice and the Politics; 4. Adopting 'Equality Tools' from the Toolboxes of their Predecessors: The Fathers' Rights Movement in the United States; 5. Gender Equality, Child Welfare and Fathers' Rights in Sweden
6. Yearning for Law: Fathers' Groups and Family Law Reform in AustraliaBibliography; Index
Summary The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented history. Yet recent developments in a number of countries suggest a growing politicisation of the relationship between law and fatherhood. In some countries, an increasingly vocal, visible and well-organised fathers' rights movement has been credited with influencing perceptions of the politics of family justice. Fathers, it is argued, have become the new victims of family law justice systems that have
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-166) and index
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Subject Fathers -- Legal status, laws, etc
Parent and child (Law)
LAW -- Family Law -- Children.
Fathers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Parent and child (Law)
Vater
Kind
Vaderschap.
Juridische aspecten.
Actiegroepen.
Wetswijziging.
Familienrecht.
Internationaler Vergleich.
Reform.
Vater-Kind-Beziehung.
Genre/Form Landenoverzichten (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Collier, Richard
LC no. 2007270830
ISBN 9781847312808
1847312802
1280829249
9781280829246
9781472563750
1472563751