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This book examines the questions at the heart of family law, rethinking the ideas that shape our understanding of the family as a social unit, its purpose, and the obligations and rights that belong to family members. It develops an original theory for understanding family law's aims centred on respect for personal intimacy.
Offers a fresh examination of the fundamental questions at the heart of family law - how should the state govern people's intimate relationships? Should it encourage a model of'proper'family life in the interests of stability, or allow people to make their own
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Produktbeschreibung
This book examines the questions at the heart of family law, rethinking the ideas that shape our understanding of the family as a social unit, its purpose, and the obligations and rights that belong to family members. It develops an original theory for understanding family law's aims centred on respect for personal intimacy.
Offers a fresh examination of the fundamental questions at the heart of family law - how should the state govern people's intimate relationships? Should it encourage a model of'proper'family life in the interests of stability, or allow people to make their own decisions?Analyses the impact of human rights on the ideas of family law, showing how the traditional power structures that shaped family life have been shaken by the values of the rights of the child, and the rights of minorities to determine their futurePresents a thorough theoretical groundwork for the understanding of family law in the twenty-first century, based on respect for personal intimacyIncludes an additional chapter on the concept of community.
Autorenporträt
John Eekelaar is Academic Director and Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford