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| 1411-6077-30 | Establishing Emotional Parenthood in Parent-Child Relations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Establishing Emotional Parenthood in Parent-Child Relations – Dr Sharon Frieling
The course will be focused on an in depth analysis of the fundamental question: does the law have a role in creating the conditions for establishing the emotional parenting in parent-child relations. The emotional parenting in translated, to the purposes of the analysis of the fundamental question, to the ongoing contact between the child and both his parents, following the parent's separation and divorce proceedings, in order to enable the child to experience emotional and present parenting from both parents.
The child's right to emotional parenting seems obvious, so is the common notion that growing up with two responsible and devoting parents is the best option for a child. The conflictual question is: in a reality where most children will not grow up with both parents under the same roof, should the state intervene in shaping and establishing the parent-child relations? The question regarding the role of the law, as an instrument of the state, in ensuring the child's experience of emotional parenting from both parents, is the one that raises doubt and conflict in various disciplines, including the legal discipline, from many aspects.
This fundamental question raises a discussion regarding many secondary questions including: whether it is appropriate for public policy to undermine the promotion of traditional family units or individual freedom, operate to protect children by defining limits for a family or necessarily by removing them, can we even talk about effective intervention in a situation of a split of opinions in a pluralistic society and what are the basic limitations of the law in an attempt to regulate human-emotional conduct?
The fundamental question will be analyzed through an in depth discussion of the questions regarding the relationship between law and emotion and between law and moral order; morality’s place in the modern legal debate; the limits of the law; the family limits; the roles of the law - from philosophical, social, psychological and feminist aspects.
Grade: Final Exam 100% (with books)