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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Obligation and Commitment in Family Law by Professor Gillian Douglas
Taking a contextual approach that draws on history sociology and social policy as well as law and legal theory this book examines the concept of obligation as it has been developed in family law and the difficulties the law has had in translating it from a theoretical and ideological concept into the basis of enforceable actions and duties. The book traces how the notion of commitment is understood and how far it has come to be used as a rationale for imposing the core legal obligations which underpin care and caring within families.