International Perspectives on Disputes about Children and Child Protection(Out of stock)
Collected Essays on Preventing Abuse, Parental Responsibilities and Empowering Children (Vol.2)
Edited by Katherine Lynch and Anne Scully-Hill
229 x 152 mm , 236pp ISBN / ISSN : 978-962-996-774-1
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US$39.00
The essays in Volume 2 provide insights on the serious problems of child abuse and child sex trafficking in Hong Kong and internationally and focus on the need for effective child advocacy and protection. The first group of essays discuss the incidence and prevention of child abuse and child sex trafficking and highlight the urgent need for more empirical research and quantitative data to gauge the real extent of child abuse and to help calculate the huge financial costs of child maltreatment to society. The need for a coordinated multi-disciplinary community based approach to preventing and treating child victims of abuse and sex trafficking is discussed. The consequences of emotional abuse of children in high conflict separation and parental alienation cases are also considered. The essays in the second section focus on parental responsibilities, empowering children and effective child advocacy. The inappropriateness of a “rights based” discourse for matters of parents and children is analyzed, stressing the new paradigm for parent child relationships reframed as “parental responsibilities”. Allowing children to express themselves and to directly participate in proceedings involving them is discussed. Volume 2 concludes by focusing on the need for effective child advocacy and policy formulation through the appointment of independent Children’s Commissioner in Hong Kong.
List of Contributors
Katherine Lynch, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
Diane M. Swales, Regional Advisor, Child Protection, UNICEF, East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office, Bangkok
Nicholas Bala, Professor of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Mrs. Chang Lam Sook-yee, Senior Social Work Officer/ Family and Child Protective Services (Child Protection), Social Welfare Department, Hong Kong SAR
Dr Jessica Ho, PhD, Director, Against Child Abuse, Hong Kong
Carole J. Petersen, Professor and Director of the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Philip Marcus, Judge (retired) of the Jerusalem Family Court
Amarantha Yip Yun Wan, Head of Service, Hong Kong Family Welfare Society
Anne Scully-Hill, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong
