Family life is now recognised as a potential site of vulnerabilities, where care work can go unacknowledged, and be a source of social and economic hardship. Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law addresses the strong relationships that exist between vulnerability, care and dependency in particular contexts, where family law and social policy have a contribution to make. The first book of its kind to provide an intersectional approach to this subject, this title will be of interest to anyone concerned with how developments in social policy and family law might improve the lives of already exposed and fragile families.

CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Vulnerabilities, Care and Families Julie Wallbank and Jonathan Herring, CHAPTER 2: The Contours of 'Vulnerability' Jennifer Collins, CHAPTER 3: Careful Family Law Jonathan Herring, CHAPTER 4: Why Care? 'Deserving Family Members' and the Conservative Movement for Broader Family Recognition Nicola Barker, CHAPTER 5: 'The failure(s) of the self-managed post-separation family' Julie Wallbank, CHAPTER 6: Autonomy and vulnerability in family law. The missing link Alison Diduck, CHAPTER 7: Mediation and vulnerable parents Christine Piper, CHAPTER 8: Child Protection and the Modernised Family Justice System Felicity Kaganas, CHAPTER 9: Child support, child contact and social class Stephen Mckay, CHAPTER 10: Labour Law, Family Law and Care: A Plea for Convergence Nicole Busby, CHAPTER 11: Relational vulnerability, care and dependency Jo Bridgeman, CHAPTER 12: Vulnerable Adults Alison Brammer CHAPTER 13: When are adult safeguarding interventions justified? Michael Dunn