Child Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltrea

This volume provides an understanding of how systems of child protection evolve in disparate cultural, social and economic contexts. Using the former Soviet Uni

Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human

This volume provides a wide spectrum description analysis of the contemporary and well established child protection systems in a range of countries, such as Aus

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine