Caring for Families in Court: An Essential Approach to Family Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138684119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 160 str.

Barbara A. Babb; Judith D. Moran

Opis

Family law cases constitute almost half of the trial caseload in many US courts. In this important study, the authors argue that reforms to the family justice system are necessary to enable it to assist families and children effectively. In building on conceptual, procedural, and structural reforms of the past several decades, the authors define the concept of a unified family court structured along interdisciplinary lines. The book proposes an approach that would fashion the family court as a care center by blending existing theories surrounding court reform in family law with an ethic of care and narrative practice. Creating the court as a care center should, the authors conclude, lie at the heart of how a family justice system should operate."