By Jo Bridgeman, Heather Keating, Craig Lind
This assortment brings jointly probably the most eminent and intriguing authors discovering kin duties to envision understandings of the daily duties which individuals adopt inside households and the function of the legislations within the development of these understandings. The authors discover a number questions basic to our knowing of 'responsibility' in kinfolk existence: To whom, and to what ends, are relatives liable? Is accountability basically a question of care? will we fulfil our kin obligations via paying these to whom we owe accountability? Or by means of paying others to meet our worrying responsibilities for us? In every one of those situations the chapters during this assortment discover what it potential to have family members obligations, what constitutes an sufficient functionality of such obligations and the purpose at which the country intervenes. on the middle of this assortment is an curiosity within the means within which the altering relatives impacts people's belief and workout their family members tasks, and the way the legislation makes an attempt to manage (and comprehend) these duties. The essays diversity throughout intact and separated or fragmented households, from lone and shared parenting in unmarried houses to worrying throughout families (and even throughout overseas obstacles) to mirror at the genuine being concerned obligations of relatives and at the fulfilment of monetary tasks in households. This assortment seeks to boost our knowing of the makes an attempt of the legislation, and its limits, in regulating the obligations which family take for every different.
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The chapters in this volume thus explore the extent to which the law attempts to involve itself in the regulation of family responsibilities and its shortcomings and failings in doing so. To what extent are the responsibilities taken within families determined by moral or ethical norms, social expectations, economic regulation, for example, and to what extent does the law reinforce these rather than create them? But our authors are aware that, even where law appears to fail fully to ‘regulate’ responsibility, its attempts have an effect in the regulation of responsibility that emerges.
He has published widely in the area of law and gender and his books include Men, Law and Gender: Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law (Routledge, 2010), Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study (with Sally Sheldon, Hart, 2008), Masculinities, Crime and Criminology: Men, Corporeality and the Criminal(ised) Body (Sage, 1998), Masculinity, Law and the Family (Routledge, 1995) and Fathers’ Rights, Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective (edited with Sally Sheldon, Hart, 2007). He is presently researching the book Family Men: Fatherhood, Law and Gender from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present and is conducting a project on male lawyers, fatherhood and work–life balance in the legal profession.
Alex Masardo’s interviews with fathers in France and England with shared residence of their children post-separation provide examples of fathers who, at least in those circumstances, wished to be actively involved in the day-to-day care of their children. Richard Collier offers a more general reflective retrospective of the family policy of the New Labour government in the UK between 1997 and 2010. He reviews policy changes which ‘challenge the assumption that families are synonymous with mothers’ with respect to, for example, birth registration, early years care and parental responsibility (47).