Author: O'Halloran, Kerry (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Moral & social purpose of education

Published on 30 December 2022 by Taylor & Francis Ltd (Routledge) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Children and the Law' series.

Paperback / softback | 302 pages
233 x 156 x 19 | 480g

Balancing a child¡¯s welfare interests and rights so as to ensure recognition and respect for his or her autonomous identity, while facilitating family unity, has become a major challenge for modern family law. This book, following on from The Principle of the Welfare of the Child: A History, examines, contrasts, and compares the response of England and Wales and Ireland to that challenge. It does so by applying the same matrix of indicators to explore, in each country, the distinction between welfare interests and rights and to trace changes in the balance between them. By profiling the nations in accordance with the same indicators, it reveals important jurisdictional differences in the extent to which welfare interests or rights determine how the law is currently applied to children.