Masculinity, Law and Family

Collier, Richard

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“…As Collier (1995) points out, the total absence of a father figure as a suitable male role model within families is considered dysfunctional and detrimental to family life. Collier outlines the legal construction of the 'good father' as the presence of masculinity within the family which embodies authority, economic responsibility and heterosexuality, with the ability to provide for, protect, and care for the family (Collier, 1995). This definition supports the law's ideal of a father as an active parent, balancing dedication to the public (employment) and private (family time).…”

Section: Fathers' Responsibilities and Rightsmentioning

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Getting tough on mothers: regulating contact and residence

Wallbank

2007

Feminist Legal Stud

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This article critically examines the relationship between shared residence and contact after the breakdown of the parents' relationship. It examines the background to the government's main emphasis on methods of monitoring, facilitating and enforcing contact as the most efficacious method of proceeding in respect of the law reform agenda, focussing particularly on the potential impact of punitive enforcement measures on primary carers, usually mothers. The article sets the discussion within its wider cultural context in respect of fathers' rights claims that family law currently favours mothers, and shows how recent legal developments constitute part of a package to manage postseparation relationships between parent and children. It also examines some of the emerging case law to show how the judiciary is using shared residence orders and transfer of residence to deal with protracted and very difficult contact disputes, and in ways which were not anticipated when shared residence orders were first introduced. Drawing on feminist legal commentaries the argument will be made that the use of transfer of residence and shared residence orders in these disputes is extremely worrying, especially in light of the growing body of empirical research which heralds caution. The article will conclude by suggesting that far from favouring mothers, both the law reforms and the case law effectively construct mothers as integral to the problem of contact. They are treated as the site of and solution to the 'problem' of contact, and the means of dealing with the problem is by increasingly punitive measures which are inappropriate in a family law context. At the same time non-residential fathers who do not uphold contact escape legal sanctions.

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Getting tough on mothers: regulating contact and residence

Wallbank

2007

Feminist Legal Stud

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“…Kita vertus, pastebėta, kad ir naujoji tėvystė kupina prieštaravimų ir įtampų (Collier, 1999, 43). Pirmiausia, progresyvios tėvystės idealą, būdingą egalitarinei šeimai, vis dar apibrėžia "nuorodos į tam tikras socialiai ir ekonomiškai specifines idėjas apie "gerbtiną" vyriškumą ir lytinį padorumą, kurių šaknys glūdi gerokai archaiškesnėse autoritarinio ir tradicinio tėviško vyriškumo sampratose" (Collier, 1995;Collier, 1999). Vadinasi, net ir naujoji tėvystė aiškiai diferencijuota lytiškai; ji išlieka institucija, kuri istoriškai sukurta kaip tam tikrų vyrų galios forma (Hearn, 2002, 245).…”

Section: Naujoji Tėvystė Ir Jos Prieštaravimaiunclassified

Išsiskyrę vyrai ir poskyrybinės tėvystės modeliai

Tereškinas¹,

Maslauskaitė²

2017

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“…It is argued that denying P.R. will destabilise the family unit and thus contribute to the creation of lone parent families which are popularly cited as lying at the root of many other social problems (see Collier, 1995;Smart and Silva, 1999). Granting automatic P.R.…”

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Sheldon

2001

Feminist Legal Studies

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Masculinity, Law and Family

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Getting tough on mothers: regulating contact and residence

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