Volume 14, Number 2, 1997
Articles
- Making Equality Work in Family Law - Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
Both as an honorary member of the International Society of Family law and as a native of the capital of the Belle Province, I am delighted to share with you today my thoughts on a topic that is close to my heart: equality in the family law context. It is truly a pleasure for me to have been afforded the opportunity to participate in this Conference, which attests our common involvement and interest in the future development of family law in North America.
Child support, child custody, visitation and relocation, international child abduction, non-parent visitation and relocation, international child abduction, non-parent visitation, same sex relationships, adoption and reproductive techonology... A simple glance at the wide range of issues explored during the Conference tells us how much our understanding of the parent-child relationship has evolved. The erosion of the traditional family, in which a husband and wife serve respectively as economic provider and emotional caregiver to their biological children, has largely been identified as the underlying thread of much of the contemporary debate, both legal and political, about the family. In fact, at the hear of most of the current issues in family law is the economic, emotional and often physical plight of a growin number of children and their parents, as well as aspiring parents, who do not fit in the traditional family archetype
- All in the Family Values - Barbara Findlay
The Canadian debate around lesbian and gay issues has been set up mostly as a debate about benefits, spousal benefits. The conservative reaction has been Why should we subsidize your (evil, sinful) lifestyles? And so it has appeared that the reason lesbians and gay men want recognition of our partnerships is mostly because of the financial benefits it will bring.
Debates about lesbian and gay rights are generated from the specific sites of oppression and opportunity. This paper examines the legal construction of the (heterosexual) family and legalized strategies of heterosexist recognistion and exclusion.
Allan Falconer Memorial Student Essay Contest Winner
- Hlugwit'y, Hluuxw'y - My Family, My Child: The Survival of Customary Adoption in British Columbia - Bill Lomax
Case Comment
- Guardianship of Adults: Good Faith and the Philosophy of Mental Disability in British Columbia - M. Melinda Munro
Book Review
- CCH Ontario Family Law Guide (North York: CCH Canadian Limited, 1996). - Gene C. Colman