The Custody Wars: Why Children Are Losing The Legal Battle, And What We Can Do About It
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465015298 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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How should the courts decide custody cases that involve adoption, divorce, and single parenting? Should an abusive husband be given custody of his child? What about unwed fathers? Gay parents? How much say should young children have in court? In this text, family lawyer and historian, Mary Ann Mason, casts a harsh spotlight on these and other aspects of child custody. Drawing on a wealth of legal cases and research, Mason presents a bold programme for reform that aims to change the terms of debate about child custody cases.. Mason insists that fairness to parents must not come at the expense of children. She argues that the legal shift to equal treatment of men and women has translated into parents' rights taking precedence over children's needs
Mary Ann Mason is an attorney and a teacher of child and family law at the University of California, Berkeley.
This is fascinating reading that may encourage people to reconsider how children are handled in divorce cases. Mason suggests many alternatives, all of which include letting the child's voice be heard throughout the divorce process. Collections with a focus on children's issues, law, family studies, and sociology will want this one.?Danna C. of California, Berkeley) looks at how custody issues are settled and how the needs of children are often ignored. Mason reviews the legal, sociological, and psychological literature to provide extensive examples of how the courts deal with issues relating to children as well as technology and the use of frozen eggs and donated sperm. . From Library Journal Mason (law, Univ. The book is loaded with endnotes and resources for additional reading. One child is quoted as saying that he was unsure to whom he belonged, and the idea of children treated as property instead of as people with feelings permeates th
Mason's book demysifies The Custody Wars brilliantly. A Customer The thesis of Berkeley Law Professor Mary Ann Mason's highly readable and powerfully argued The Custody Wars is that the U.S. legal system fails to provide adequate representation and concern for the interests of children in custody disputes. Judiciously articulated irony abounds, as when Mason exposes the court system's vulnerabil