Licensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment

By Michael McFall and Michael T. McFall

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739129147
• ISBN13: 9780739129142
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"