Family, Courts and Media Discourses: The Contested Spaces of Time, and the Politics of the Protection of Children

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela D. Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Insight Into

This article, which is built on media discourse analysis, provides an insight into how public opinion on the work of courts has developed into a discourse of disapproval. The discourse of time is often used to evaluate the work of courts and tends to meet with disapproval when related to sentencing and when the Family Court fails to deliver equal parental access to children. The Family Court is also the subject of discourses of fear within the media, with stories often focusing on child abuse and horror stories of neglect designed to attract and recruit an audience to media outlets. In addition, the discourses facing the Family Court are now firmly tied to time as a major aspect of decision-making. Because of this contested view, child protection may be reduced to a secondary perspective. This paper recommends a change to discourses surrounding courts by all parties in order to facilitate better understanding.

The Child’s Guardian – Listening and Giving Weight to Children’s Views

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen James ◽  
David Lane
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Review Panel ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
Meaningful Relationships ◽  
Insight Into

Both the child protection and public child law systems assume a child-centred approach is at the heart of their work with children. That assumption is based on what are considered child-centred principles, which are enshrined in legislation in England and Wales in the Children Act 1989, mainly the principle of paramountcy of the child’s welfare in Section 1(1) and the principle of no delay in Section 1(2), in relation to the completion of proceedings ( hm Government, 1989). However, comprehensive reviews of both the child protection system (Munro, 2011) and the family justice system (Family Justice Review Panel, 2011), along with research findings (Cappleman et al., 2013) present a picture that challenges this assumption. Increasingly, the focus on the child’s life and welfare is hampered by a lack of time and resources available to professionals such as Guardians to enable them establish a meaningful and trusting relationship with the child in order to gain insight into and an understanding of the child’s world from the child’s perspective. The child appears to be very much on the periphery of a system that lacks real connectedness with the child and their view of their situation and circumstances. Such a level of connectedness can only be achieved by providing children with space and time to develop trust in and meaningful relationships with those whose duty it is to represent their true wishes and feelings and give due weight to the child’s perspective.

Taegeuk Warriors with Blue Eyes: A Media Discourse Analysis of the South Korean Men’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team and Its Naturalized Athletes

2020 ◽  
pp. 216747952095840
Author(s):  
NaRi Shin ◽  
DooJae Park ◽  
Jon Welty Peachey
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
The South ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Discourses

This study examines media discourses of the naturalized athletes of the South Korean men’s national ice hockey team. Building on the conceptual frameworks of imagined community, ethnic nationalism, and previous studies on athlete migration and naturalization, we further an understanding of the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of South Korean ethnic and national identity. We use Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to explore how South Korean media legitimized the naturalization of foreign athletes without Korean ancestry and suggest three themes found from the discourses. First, the discourses highlighted the significance of the South Korean team’s Olympic success, which provided a legitimate reason for the recruitment of foreign athletes. Second, the naturalized athletes were described as “saviors” who possessed superior careers, physicality, and playing skills. Lastly, the media complimented the naturalized athletes’ acculturation to Korean culture by emphasizing their commitment to the nation. We argue that by forming and distributing discourses that favored the naturalization of athletes, Koreans have expanded the boundary of Koreanness. We discuss, then, the expansion of Koreanness in relation to the notion of flexible citizenship in the era of neoliberal globalization.

scholarly journals Child removal as the gateway to further adversity: Birth mother accounts of the immediate and enduring collateral consequences of child removal

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Broadhurst ◽  
Claire Mason
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Birth Mothers ◽  
Collateral Consequences ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
Protective Resources ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Psychosocial Crisis

This article is focused on the immediate and enduring consequences of child removal, from the perspective of birth mothers. The article builds on the authors’ previous theoretical work on the collateral consequences of child removal and women’s vulnerability to repeat family court appearances. Interview data drawn from in-depth qualitative interviews with 72 birth mothers conducted in seven local authority areas are revisited to enable a focused analysis of the immediate and longer-term effects of child removal. Analysis was informed by phenomenology’s interest in collective accounts of experience and the pursuit of moderate generalisations. All the women participating in the study had experienced the repeat removal of their children through the family courts, or were involved in child protection proceedings concerning an unborn child, having previously lost a child from their care. Birth mothers recounted an immediate psychosocial crisis following child removal, but also the cumulative and enduring nature of problems. From women’s accounts, we have been able to deepen our understanding of the enormity of the recovery challenge for women with long-standing histories of disadvantage who hold fragile and restricted social statuses. Role loss and further exclusionary consequences of child removal were particularly pronounced, given women’s limited access to protective resources. A clear set of recommendations for services are set out in a final discussion. The scale of the difficulties women face needs to be recognised in services that aim to promote recovery, if women are to be helped to avoid recurrent family court proceedings.

Poor Quality of Mental Health Assessment Reports in UK Family Courts: A ‘call to Action’

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S460-S460
Author(s):  
R. Kurz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
Assessment Reports

IntroductionProf. Jane Ireland found that 65% of assessment reports sampled from UK family courts were ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’.ObjectiveThe presentation raises international awareness of the problem and explains the contextual factors that contribute to malpractice.AimsThe paper highlights typical deficiencies in family court assessments and forensic processes in order to reduce the risk of unsafe custody rulings.MethodDue to the paucity of published academic literature ‘ad hoc’ Internet searches were utilised to collect source material and identify advocates. A range of conferences, seminars and continued professional development (CPD) events revealed the background for some of the persistent problems.ResultsThe suppression of the trauma-centric approach to mental health issues and its re-emergence are central to understanding the trajectory and how to improve professional practice.Organised Ritualised Crime Abuse Networks (ORCANs) seem to be at work infiltrating institutions that are supposed to uphold law and order.Inadequate psychometric instruments appear to beguile some mental health professionals into wrong diagnosis and testimony.ConclusionThe standard of UK family court assessments must improve. Scrapping ‘forced adoption’ legislation that drives the ‘child snatching’ culture in UK social services department would benefit society including citizens from abroad whose governments vocally criticise the removal of their children through clandestine UK ‘child protection’ procedures.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals De conflictscheiding als complexe gezinsproblematiek : Waarom screening op huiselijk geweld essentieel is1

Pedagogiek ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-231
Author(s):  
Corine de Ruiter ◽  
Marilien Marzolla ◽  
Niki Ramakers
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Family Court ◽  
High Conflict ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Conflict Divorce ◽  
Screening Interview

Abstract High Conflict Divorce as a Complex Family Problem: Why Domestic Violence Screening is EssentialHigh Conflict Divorce form 20% of separations that involve children. These parents continue to litigate child custody and parenting arrangements, and accuse each other of child abuse, intimate partner violence, and mental health problems. The children suffer because of longstanding animosity. In this contribution, we report on a pilot study among 102 parents in a high conflict divorce, assessed at the Child Protection Council, Safe Home, or a child welfare service. The MASIC, a structured screening interview for intimate partner violence (IPV), was administered to each parent separately. Results revealed that the prevalence of different types of IPV was extremely high in our sample, and the violence kept occurring after the divorce, albeit somewhat less frequently. Our findings largely concur with international research in this area. In particular, the presence of coercive controlling violence perpetrated by one of the ex-partners, should prompt the professional to conduct further evaluation of parental and child safety. The type of IPV that emerges from the MASIC screening has implications for the advice to the parents and the family court.

scholarly journals PORODIČNI BIZNIS KAO RAZVOJNA ŠANSA PRIVREDE SRBIJE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Milosav Miličković ◽  
Alshibani Warda Muftah Shafee ◽  
Miroslav Jevremović
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Risk Insurance ◽  
Insight Into

The family business contains certain specifics from the organizational form, financing, inheritance, risk, insurance, and others. Family business is very important because it represents a significant part of every national economy and directly affects the well-being and stability of the whole country, but there is still not enough developed awareness of its impact, so this kind of business is not sufficiently researched. That family business is not sufficiently researched is proved by the fact that in market economies there is not enough literature on this way of doing business, so stakeholders do not have insight into the opportunities it provides, as well as problems and risks that must be considered before starting a family business. The subject of this paper is precisely the origin, development, ideas, advantages, and disadvantages of the family business in general. The goal is to present this idea, which can enable a complete financial and organizational analysis of the business venture, ie what are the initial funds and what works need to be undertaken and performed to further develop the family business in Serbia and beyond.

scholarly journals Family Courts Consortium

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 570-571
Author(s):  
Jean Harris Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parliamentary Committee

This Consortium has a distinguished political-legal history. Its predecessor, the Family Court Campaign, was launched in 1985 by Lady Faithfull, then chairman of the all party parliamentary committee for children. Its aims were those of the Finer Committee (1974).

4. The Single Family Court

Family Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 36-36
Author(s):  
Roiya Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Family Court ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
The Family

This chapter is a short but important chapter. It provides an overview of the Single Family Court, which was created in April 2014. This is a huge change from when there used to be two family courts, magistrates’ and county court. It summarizes the effects of the Single Family Court and outlines who is involved in the judicial process within the new structure. It discusses how the allocation of cases within the Single Family Court are done by ‘gatekeepers’ and the new points of entry for cases. It outlines that the rules for allocation can be found in the Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) Rules 2014.

scholarly journals Engaging parents in Family Court: Lessons from an observational study of child protection cases

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Lens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Court System ◽  
Northeastern United States ◽  
The Family

Summary This study explores the courtroom interactions between judges, attorneys, and parents charged with child abuse or neglect. Drawing on ethnographic observations of court cases in a Family Court located in the northeastern United States, this study seeks to understand how judges encourage or inhibit parents’ participation and the strategies and tactics used to influence parental behaviors and obtain cooperation with court orders. Findings On one end of the spectrum are judges who engage little, or not at all with parents, preferring to speak only to the professional court actors. On the other end of the spectrum is a more participatory approach, with judges weaving parents into court room exchanges and engaging them in informational and decision-making dialogs. A similar divergence appears when soliciting cooperation from parents, with some judges relying on shaming rituals and others using a softer approach that incorporates praise and support. Applications Strategic interventions are identified that will increase parents’ cooperation and satisfaction with the Family Court system. These include vigorously engaging in both informational and decision-making dialogs with parents and using rituals of praise and support, rather than shaming.

Child Protection and the Family Court – What You Need to Know

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rt Hon Sir Andrew McFarlane ◽  
Madeleine Reardon ◽  
Alexander Laing
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Family Court ◽  
The Family
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