The Best Interests of the Child: The Least Detrimental Alternative
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$21.99
Publication Date: February 8th, 1998
Publisher:
Free Press
ISBN:
9780684835464
Pages:
352
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Description
In The Best Interests of the Child, published between 1973 and 1986, the authors speak in one voice in concluding that the continuity of care - continuity of a child's relationship with his or her adult caregiver - is a universal essential to the child's well-being.
The authors stress that minimizing intrusions by the law is paramount to safeguarding the child's growth and development. The least detrimental alternative - the authors overarching guideline for assuring the continuity of the psychological parent-child relationship - has been cited in more than a thousand child custody cases since 1973.