Full Description
This book draws together leading scholars, practitioners and mothers with lived experience to confront the contentious and often hidden practice of infant removal at birth. The first edited collection of its kind, it offers a powerful examination of the legal, ethical and political frameworks that underpin this practice.
Contents
Introduction - Karen Broadhurst, Claire Mason, Dr Emily Keddell, Lucy Griffiths and Linda Cusworth
Part 1: Care proceedings at birth: assessment and decision-making
1. Acting in haste? The particular challenges of family court proceedings at birth - Karen Broadhurst, Claire Mason, Emily Keddell, Lucy Griffiths and Linda Cusworth
2. The removal of infants at birth in the US: anticipating harm and substantiating claims in new-born baby cases - Vivek S. Sankaran
3. Title: Infant removals at birth in Norway - the challenge of predicting future harm in a context of policy and legislative change and reflection. - Ida Bendicte Juhaz and Barbara Ruiken
4. Even-handed treatment? Voluntary and compulsory routes into care for babies in Wales and Scotland - Laura Cowley and Linda Cusworth
Part 2 : Rights And Representation
5. Maternal bodies in court: do care proceedings in the immediate post-partum period breach women's legal and human rights? Karen Broadhurst and Stephanie Taplin,
6. Are parents with a history of repeat care proceedings treated fairly within children's services and the family courts? Claire Mason, Bachar Alrouh, Karen Broadhurst, Georgia Philip and Harriet Ward
7. Mental health and parents' participation rights in care proceedings - Lucy Griffiths, and Lisa Morris
8. Recognising and responding to learning disability and difficulties in family court proceedings: a question of rights - Katie Burch and Mary Baginsky
9. Maternal Rights and infant Separation in Prison - Laura Abbott and Kirsty Kitchen
Part 3: Social Justice And Responding To Inequities In Colonised Contexts
10. Challenging and changing inequitable practice at birth for indigenous families in New Zealand - Emily Keddell and Kerri Cleaver
11. Socio-economic inequalities in perinatal child protection involvement of families in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities - Melissa O'Donnell and Jacynta Krakouer
12. Indigenous women speak: under surveillance at birth in British Columbia - Susan Burke and colleagues
13. Discussion - Karen Broadhurst, Claire Mason, Dr Emily Keddell, Lucy Griffiths and Linda Cusworth
Conclusion
