{"title":"Childhood","authors":"J. Herring","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the legal and social responses to childhood. It explores the contradictory messages that are sent by the law about children. It also considers the importance attached to the concept of “Gillick competence”. The chapter highlights how childhood is seen in distinction from adulthood and the debates around the “goods of childhood”. The concepts of children’s rights and the best interest of the child are explored.","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121506597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family Law","authors":"J. Herring","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the lessons that can be learned for family law by considering the life course. It looks at the legal response to marriage and questions the extent to which the law does, or should, privilege marriage. It considers whether other relationship may be more deserving of support than marriage. It also considers the basis of parenthood and how the law allocates parental status.","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114744714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adulthood","authors":"Jonathan Herring","doi":"10.46692/9781529204674.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529204674.005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores adulthood, which is presented as the ‘prime of life’. It argues that the law privileges certain kinds of people by elevating rights to autonomy and privacy as central rights. In doing this it downplays the vulnerable, caring and interdependent nature of humanity. The chapter considers issues around infertility and domestic abuse to highlight the difficulties facing those who do not comply with the assumptions about the ‘natural’ human condition.","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115957774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life Course Theory","authors":"J. Herring","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces the reader to life course theory. It provides definitions of the life course and explores the challenges in defining the different stages of the life course. The interaction of law and life stages is considered. The chapter also introduces some of the themes that run through the book such as age discrimination and intergenerational justice.","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129685484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"J. Herring","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter brings together some of the themes of the book. It explores the tension for the law and society between the emphasis on individualism and the expectation and assumptions around stages of life. It considers the emphasis placed on autonomy in law and approaches to the life course.","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127353884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"","doi":"10.46692/9781529204674.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529204674.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116869259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fetus","authors":"Bernice B. Capusten","doi":"10.1148/radiology.184.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.184.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123256864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life Course Theory","authors":"Elizabeth D. Hutchison","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121744478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fetus","authors":"J. Herring","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204667.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the legal status of the fetus and debates around its moral status. These demonstrate what is seen as necessary or valuable for human beings. The chapter highlights how the law and some moral theories elevates the importance of intellectual capacity as key to moral value. It promotes a view that relationships of care should be seen as central to moral value.","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131539072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Table of Legislation","authors":"A. Keay","doi":"10.1017/9781108634687.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108634687.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114847247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}