A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia

Offers instructions and advice for becoming a legal guardian, discusses alternatives to guardianship, and provides legal forms.

Three distinguished authorities in law, psychiatry, and child development critically evaluate current child placement laws.

The second volume in a classic trilogy of reference works often cited in child custody cases, which introduced the concept of the “least detrimental alternati

This updated edition consolidates all child-centred legislation, from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child through to the Referendum on Children's Right