Catalogue by countries / Who's Fit to Be a Parent?
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| ISS/IRC Code | TOOL-PRACTICE ENG-101 |
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| Title | Who's Fit to Be a Parent? |
| Author | JAIN CAMPION Mukti |
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| Date published/issue | 00-00-1995 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
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| Publisher | Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE, United Kingdom |
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| Page | 308 |
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| ISBN | 0 415 06684 0 |
| Type of material | Book |
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Ethics Parental-rights-loss Education-child-needs Paps-eligibility Child-interest |
| Free text | The author presents changing aspects of our society that bring to the fore questions about family life and the eligibility of parents to raise children. Among the issues discussed: "1- the recognition of the rights of the child; 2- the demands for equal rights to parenthood by groups previously excluded or discouraged; 3- the increase in break-up of parental relationships which leads to the decision about who looks after the children; 4- the advance of medical knowledge which now gives doctors the ability to offer children to many people previously incapable of unassisted reproduction." Chapter 2: Other people's children - Who's fit to adopt? presents the assessment process that prospective adoptive parents have to go through in the UK and which simply reflects "the prevailing cultural attitudes..(which) are not cast in stone but shift in time." |
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