Parental Rights and Responsibilities

Overview

This volume represents key scholarship on the issue of parental rights and responsibilities, selected from a dense forest of literature.

Topics Covered

The collection offers an overview of the subject and covers topics such as: underlying rationales of who or what is a parent; legal concepts of parent and their linkage; the legal parent - accommodating complexity; the nature and scope of parental rights; shared parental responsibility; and parental rights and the state.