Most of us don’t want to think about estate planning, about what it would be like if we weren’t here to take care of our loved ones. As a business owner or entrepreneur, you have worked hard for your success and wealth, and this has helped ensure your loved ones are cared for. But what would happen if you became incapacitated or died?
How would ......
A Survivor-Centered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice
Presents a multidisciplinary look at society's responses to domestic violence. Though substantial reforms have been made in the services available to battered women since the 1970s, this book shows how the public and private systems available to victims of domestic violence are still failing to meet the needs of the women who seek help.
How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families
Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change At the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and a kindly, all-knowing judge would assist children and families. But the ......
Critical Perspectives on Domestic Violence Responses
A look at gun control, campus sexual assault, immigration, and more that considers the future of responses to domestic violence Domestic violence is commonly assumed to be a bipartisan, nonpolitical issue, with politicians of all stripes claiming to work to end family violence. Nevertheless, the Violence Against Women Act expired for over 500 ......
Addresses key topics in child custody evaluation. This book describes data-based approaches to understanding and assessing relevant child, parent, and family factors. Going beyond the basics, it gives in-depth attention to issues like, how to evaluate allegations of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and child alienation.
Argues that regulation of the substance that creates life and spreads harm is crucial in a post-Roe America Controls on sexual reproduction are so familiar. Check out any authority over human lives - religious, medical, sociopolitical, familial, psychological - and you'll find teachings about what people must, shouldn't, may, and may not do with ......
Family Law for Non-Lawyers uses current events, sometimes with tabloid-style fact patterns or celebrity participants, to illustrate the complexities of and rapid changes in the field of family law in the United States. The book also presents recent U.S. Supreme Court family law cases to allow the reader to play Justice and try to determine how the ......
How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families
Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change At the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and a kindly, all-knowing judge would assist children and families. But the ......
Offers an assessment of how children's rights take shape and are realized at various stages of child development and, in turn, can and should inform law and policy Children's rights and child development frameworks are critical to understanding children's lived experiences, advancing child wellbeing, and implementing children's rights. However, ......
