1st Edition
Child Welfare and Rights A Contemporary Family Law Analysis
Introduction
Part I: Children’s rights v welfare interests
1. Welfare interests and legal rights: Complementary or conflicting?
2. Child as a legal entity
3. Family life and family breakdown
Part II: Hybrid family law and implications for children’s rights
4. Commercial surrogacy and parental abduction
5. Adoption from state care and intercountry adoption
6. Unaccompanied migrant minors, detention and trafficking
7. Poverty, discrimination and public servicess
Part III: Coherence in family law: Balancing welfare interests and rights
8. Family law coherence: Welfare interests and rights
Book Conclusion
Biography
Kerry O’Halloran - lawyer, social worker and academic – formerly Adjunct Professor to the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at QUT, Brisbane and Assistant Director of the Centre for Voluntary Action, University of Ulster, has served on a social care tribunal and on a HSS trust adoption panel, has advised the Irish government on law reform matters, and served in a consultancy capacity to various bodies. His many books include several on child care and protection, international adoption, human rights and family law.
