1st Edition
Disability, Care and Family Law
Introduction
Part I Care relations in policy context
1. Disability and care: Theoretical antagonisms revisited
Beverley Clough
2. Mothering, disability and care: Beyond the prison wall
Chrissie Rogers
3. Children care
Jonathan Herring
4. Ageing, disability and family life
Kirstein Rummery
Part II Disabled children: Interacting with institutional and legal settings
5. Children’s understanding of disabilities
Siân E. Jones
6. Deprivation of liberty, parental consent and the rights of the child
Camilla Parker
7. Transforming family responsibilities: Children with disabilities, parental responsibility and family life
Jo Bridgeman
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
Mark Higgins
9. "He got down on one knee": Intellectual disability, intimacy and family law’
Rosie Harding
10. Protecting disabled adults from abusive family relationships: Mental capacity, autonomy and vulnerability
Jaime Lindsey
11. Law and dementia: Family context and the experience of dementia in old age
Margaret Isabel Hall
Biography
Beverley Clough is Associate Professor in Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds.
Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford.
