Licensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment - Paperback

This book examines the negative power that child maltreatment has on individuals and society ethically and politically, while analyzing the positive power that parental love and healthy families have. To address how best to confront the problem of child maltreatment, it examines several policy options, ultimately defending a policy of licensing parents, while carefully examining the tension between child and adult rights and duties.

• | Author: Michael McFall
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0739129147
• | ISBN-13: 9780739129142