TRENDS IN CHILD PROTECTION MEDIATION: RESULTS OF THE THINK TANK SURVEY AND INTERVIEWS

Several child protection conflict resolution program directors and researchers talked about how best to initiate a networking effort for their field. In September 2007, their conversations culminated in a Think Tank in Columbus, Ohio. This was a collaboration of judges, program directors, researchers, and representatives from national organizations that work in child protection. Participants felt this was a successful effort and that the meeting provided networking opportunities and many provocative discussions. In order to facilitate a meeting that would be meaningful for the Think Tank participants, input was solicited from as many constituent groups as possible. Surveys and interviews were completed in the summer of 2007, which shed light on themes that were ripe for discussion and improvement. This article details the survey and interview results and includes some brief comments from the Think Tank itself. Thoughts about future research in child protection conflict resolution are also provided.     

对未成年人犯罪的家庭预防研究

未成年人犯罪是当今世界一大严重的社会性问题,有人将未成年人犯罪与环境污染、吸毒贩毒列为世界三大公害。不完善的家庭结构及家庭教育是导致未成年人犯罪的家庭因素,在家庭角度应采取切实有效措施预防未成年人犯罪。     

司法的功能与反家庭暴力立法——以家庭暴力的司法介入为视角

家庭暴力是发生在家庭成员间的一种违反法律与善良风俗的暴力行为,已成为一个全球性的社会“癌症”。推动家庭暴力防治专门立法、发挥司法资源的功用、全面保护家庭暴力受害者的合法权益成为当务之急。文章根据我国反家庭暴力立法和司法实践的状况,指出我国司法介入家庭暴力的现实路径。     

家政哲学的学术解析

当代中国家政学的研究,是对传统儒家家庭思想中的思维原则及方法的认识与反思,是对传统儒家家庭思想向现代家庭思想转变中出现的问题之哲学层面的认识与反思。     

家庭环境中的思想政治教育探究

家庭是进行思想政治教育的重要环境,它对家庭成员的思想影响具有基础性、持续性、深入性及情感优势性等特征。家庭环境中的物质环境和精神环境因素对思想政治教育工作具有深刻的影响。     

家族企业的治理模式研究

许多学者分别从关系、能力或信任等不同角度对家族企业的治理模式进行了有意义的描述,但这些分析的视角往往比较单一,并不能很好地解释各种因素之间的联系,与家族企业的实际运作模式并不完全相符。实际上,关系、能力与信任都会对家族企业的治理模式产生影响,且这些因素是相互作用的,综合地对企业的用人制度和管理方式产生影响。能否获得信任是家族企业人员能否获得某个岗位的重要影响因素,而关系和能力又是能否获得信任的重要影响因素。     

I am becoming my mother: (post)diaspora,local entanglements and entangled locals

ABSTRACT

Drawing on the sensory, self-shifting approach of Lorna Goodison’s 1986 poem ‘I am becoming my mother’, and on quantum theory for brief insights into entanglement, this article gazes into the still visualities of family photographs of my own Birmingham childhood (my mother died that same year) to push towards a more entangled conception of (post)diaspora. I use this highly personal entanglement to take issue with three troublingly disentangled ways in which postdiaspora has been imagined in recent academic literature: as the culmination of a teleological movement from migrant to diaspora to post-diaspora; as the slowly weakening pull of diasporic responsibilities and remittances; and as a means to archaise and de-link from ties to a forgetful and irresponsible diaspora. Ultimately, the article pushes towards a more deeply materially and personally entangled version of (post)diaspora.     

A history of the use of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system: contradictions,collisions and their consequences

ABSTRACT

This paper presents insights into the history and current deployment of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system. It begins in 1989, when an article on parental alienation syndrome was first published in an Australian law journal. It then traces aspects of the socio-legal and social science research, gender politics, law reform and jurisprudence of the following 30 years, paying attention to moments of significant change. The impacts of major amendments that emphasise the desirability of post-separation shared parenting outcomes in 1996 and 2006 are specifically considered. More recently, in 2012, reforms intended to improve the family law system’s response to domestic and family violence were introduced. The history reveals an irreconcilable tension between the ‘benefit’ of ‘meaningful’ post-separation parent-child relationships and the protection of children from harm. When mothers’ allegations of violence in the family are disbelieved, minimised or dismissed, they are transformed from victims of abuse into perpetrators of abuse – alienators of children from their fathers. Their actions and attitudes collide with the shared parenting philosophy. This is arguably an inescapable consequence of a family law system that struggles to deal effectively with family violence in the context of a strong shared parenting regime.     

National-Level Family Policies and workers’ Access to Schedule Control in a European Comparative Perspective: Crowding Out or In,and for Whom?

Abstract

This paper examines national-level family policies in a comparative perspective, to see whether they “crowd out” company-level family-friendly policies, namely schedule control. Further, it examines whether this relationship varies for different types of family policies, and for different groups of workers – i.e. distinguished by gender, parenthood status and skill divisions. The paper uses data from 27 European countries in 2010, and applies multilevel random slopes models with cross-level interaction terms. Results show that generous national-level family policies, in particular work-facilitating policies, “crowd in” company-level schedule control provisions, especially for high-skilled workers. However, very generous leave entitlements seem to crowd out schedule control provision.     

Violent backgrounds of economically disadvantaged youth: Risk factors for perpetrating violence?

Adolescent Job Corps residents (n=474) reported the violence they had experienced, witnessed, and perpetrated with regards to parents, siblings, friends, and strangers. Results indicated that there was a high prevalence of all types of violence in this atrisk adolescent sample. Moreover, the majority of adolescents who reported violent experiences indicated threat or use of a weapon was involved. Gender differences were obtained such that boys reported perpetrating more aggression against friends and strangers than girls. Girls reported witnessing more parental aggression than boys. No gender differences in parental victimization rates were obtained. Contrary to prediction, parental victimization did not significantly predict perpetration towards siblings, friends, or strangers for either gender. However, parental victimization did predict increased violence towards parents. Surprisingly, for females especially, witnessing parental violence reduced the likelihood of violence towards parents. These findings support the need to include conflict resolution skills as a component of Job Corps training.