An evaluation of Montana's child welfare court pre-hearing conference pilot project

Pre-hearing conferences are a form of alternative dispute resolution that have been implemented into the child welfare court process. Montana recently piloted a pre-hearing conference model to occur before the first hearing on the case. The goal of the pilot was to increase discussion and resolution of contested visitation, placement, and service issues and to better engage parents in the process. Data were collected across multiple years to explore the effectiveness of the pilot in improving outcomes for children and families. Analysis of the data revealed a positive relationship between program implementation and timelier permanency. Parents who attend and have higher levels of participation in the pre-hearing conference are also more likely to reunify.     

Parent–child contact problems and family intensive interventions: The crisis of adolescent suicidality and the role of social media

Although clinicians, educators and parents have been alarmed by the decline in the mental health of children and adolescents commensurate with the Covid-19 pandemic, statistics indicate there has been a downward spiral over the last decade. This has been evident in the overall increase in suicide rates for young people. For legal and mental health professionals working in the Family Court system, this has provided unique challenges. Most vulnerable has been those children and adolescents embroiled in high conflict divorces, especially those exhibiting parent child contact problems. This article focuses upon that population exhibiting parent child contact problems, and their treatment, specifically Family Intensive Intervention. Building Family Resilience is an Intensive family treatment program that has had to address this deterioration in child and adolescent mental health and increase in suicidality. The role of social media in both exacerbating and/or ameliorating mental health issues is explored.     

30年代中国"新女性"的角色扮演与社会互动——以电影《新女性》为个案

本文从社会性别的视角,通过对电影《新女性》及其相关传媒文本的文本分析,探讨20世纪30年代中国"新女性"的角色扮演与社会互动,从中揭示男性主体对女性的角色塑造和掌控。     

家庭教育失误对未成年人习惯养成的影响及对策

良好习惯是未成年人健康人格形成的重要基础,家庭教育对未成年人良好习惯的养成有着重要的影响。家庭教育失误,不仅影响着未成年人养成良好的习惯,而且对未成年人形成健康的人生观、价值观、思维方式以及道德品行等也会有许多不利影响。因此,在未成年人良好习惯的养成过程中,家长应该在言行上做好表率,培养和谐的亲子关系,尊重孩子的主体地位,并正确运用惩戒手段。     

家事审判制：家事诉讼程序与家事法庭

家事案件因其高度人身属性而不同于普通民事争议,当事人相互之间的关系既具有终身性又可变的两面性,彼此利益既统一又分离;双方的自由合意和处分权受到较大限制。为更好地适应家事争议当事人的特殊利益需要,应对家事案件数量持续增长,促进家事争议处理质量的提高,我国宜借鉴德国、日本、英国等国司法改革经验,制定独立的家事诉讼程序,在法院设立专职审理家事案件的家事法庭乃至家庭法院,配备擅长于调处家事纠纷的法官及专职辅助人员,尽快构建家事审判制度。宜把司法裁判定位为解决家事争议的最后手段;鼓励当事人利用和解等多元化途径解决家事争议,化解家庭矛盾和冲突,提高家事争议解决的司法效率和社会综合效果。     

民间法的纠纷解决方式

国家法在纠纷解决中起着不可替代的重要作用,也被认为是现代社会最为主要和权威的纠纷解决方式。但是在国家法的社会实效受到置疑或者难以发挥理想作用的地方,民间法就往往对权利冲突或纠纷的解决起到了十分重要的作用,调整着在冲突纠纷中受到破坏的权利义务关系,实现权利并保证义务的履行,维系着民间社会的秩序。民间法通过其独特的纠纷解决机制、调整方法和以规范形式体现的乡规民约,和国家法一道构建了社会的秩序体系。     

中西纠纷解决规律浅析

中西纠纷解决的规律主要体现在七个方面,对这七个方面的准确把握,利于中国在法治进程中体现中国特色和国际经验,从而利于中国当代社会纠纷的解决。     

Service Outcomes Following Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse During Forensic Interviews: An Exploratory Study

Few children disclose sexual abuse and participate in a formal investigation. Furthermore not all children that disclose abuse during a forensic interview receive services to address trauma or safety. Despite the importance of such outcomes little is known about which factors may influence when children will receive services. Through content analysis of 139 case records findings indicate that a child's race/ethnicity abuse-related factors and level of family support are all significant in predicting service and placement outcomes in child protection cases. Implications for social work practice include the need for ongoing engagement in culturally sensitive strengths-based practice with families     

警察权威对乡村社会纠纷解决的有效性推演及其建构思路

从权威客体角度看,纠纷解决依靠的是权威施与的影响力。近年来警察出于对乡村社会治安管理的需要承担了相当数量的民间纠纷解决工作,此现象建构在权威客体对警察权威的有效性预期之上,既体现警察作为公共资源的易获取性,也是权威客体对警察权威合法性产生认同的结果。这种认同本质上发展于警民实践活动的利益共同体中,应通过对乡村社会警民利益共同体的建设强化民众对警察权威的认同,借此重塑警察权威,提高基层警队的纠纷解决能力。     

Ethnicizing citizenship,questioning membership. Explaining the decreasing family migration rights of citizens in Europe

Citizenship does not equal belonging. In this paper, we investigate how the disjunction between the ‘imagined community’ and the formal citizenry impacts on citizens’ rights. In particular, we analyse decision-making on the family migration rights of citizens in France, Germany and the Netherlands. Our analysis shows that in these three countries, notwithstanding their different migration and citizenship regimes, the reduction of citizens’ family migration rights is based on the same discursive mechanism: the ‘membership’ of citizens of migrant origin who marry a partner from abroad is called into question. As they are excluded from membership of the imagined community, their entitlement to family migration rights is decreased. Ethnic conceptions of national community, intersecting with gender and class, play a crucial role in shaping the rights attached to citizenship in Europe today.