Child Interviewing in Legal Cases : A European Perspective

Social paediatrics and child public health--a European perspective.

Why we need social paediatrics The past 20 years have produced dramatic changes in the configuration of Europe and the health of our children. While important progress has been made in areas such as neonatal and intensive care, treatment of malignancy, and transplant surgery, paediatricians enter the new millennium knowing that many children are increasingly disadvantaged by the social and poli...

Maternal Employment and Child Obesity – A European Perspective

On behalf of the IDEFICS Consortium * Corresponding authors: Wencke Gwozdz ([email protected]) and Alfonso Sousa-Poza ([email protected]). This study was conducted as part of the IDEFICS study (http://www.idefics.eu). We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the European Community within the Sixth RTD Framework Programme under Contract No. 016181 (FOOD). Alfonso Sousa-Po...

Mothers, domestic violence, and child protection: an American legal perspective.

Forensic Interviewing and Child Welfare

centered practice? The forensic interview, a technique used to obtain a statement from a child in an objective, developmentally sensitive, and legally defensible manner, often plays a key role in child maltreatment investigations. If you do not already have a clear grasp of the who, what, when, where, why, and how of forensic interviewing, this issue of Practice Notes is a good place to start. ...

Transsexualism: a legal perspective.

This paper begins with a discussion of the current legal definition of sex laid down in Corbett v Corbett. The implications of this test for three areas of the law, marriage, birth certificates and employment are then examined. Solutions from the United States of America and West Germany are studied and the suitability of similar solutions being transplanted into British law discussed.