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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clough, Beverley, editor.

Herring, Jonathan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parents with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Author Bios

Introduction

PART I: Care relations in policy context

1. Disability and care: Theoretical antagonisms revisited

2. Mothering, disability and care: Beyond the prison wall

3. Children care

4. Ageing, disability and family life

PART II: Disabled children: interacting with institutionaland legal settings

5. Childrens understanding of disabilities

6. Deprivation of liberty, parental consent and the rights of the child

7. Transforming family responsibilities: Children with disabilities, parental responsibility and family life

PART III: Adults and family relationships

8. The exam it is impossible to pass: How disabled parents are at risk of having to prove the impossible in care proceedings

9. He got down on one knee: Intellectual disability, intimacy and family law

10. Protecting disabled adults from abusive family relationships: Mental capacity, autonomy and vulnerability

11. Law and dementia: Family context and the experience of dementia in old age

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-37511-0

0-429-32801-X

1-000-37518-8

9780429328015

OCLC:

1237864755