This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. This collection challenges the standard models of family life and family law that have been developed within a child/parent-centred paradigm, and which may require rethinking in the turn to family life in old age. Interdisciplinary in its scope and orientation, this book will appeal not just to academic family lawyers and students interested in issues around family law, ageing, gender, and care; but also to sociologists and ethicists working in these areas.

List of Contributors

Introduction

PART 1
Care, Vulnerability and Age

1. Embracing Vulnerability in Ageing: Our Route to Flourishing Daniel Bedford

2. The Contractualistion of Care in an Aging World Pip Coore

3. Ageing, Vulnerability and Care: A View from Social Gerontology Liz Lloyd

4. Financial Abuse of Older Persons: A Criminal Law Perspective Jennifer Collins

5. Safeguarding in Older Age Alison Brammer

PART 2
Rights and State Institutions

6. Accountability, Social Justice and Social Care Decision-Making: Reflections on the Responsive State Beverley Clough

7. Revisiting the Feminist Critique of Rights: Lessons for a New Older Persons' Convention? Laura Pritchard-Jones

8. Impoverishing Care Ann Stewart

9. Older Prisoners, Gender and Family Life Susan Easton

PART 3
Relationships in Old Age

10. Ageing, Love and Family Law Jonathan Herring

11. Which Ageing 'Families' Count? Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* and/or Queer (LGBT*Q) - Relational Legal In/Exclusions in (Older Age) Family Law Sue Westwood

12. Inheritance Law Matters Daniel Monk

13. Looking after Grandchildren: Unfair and Differential Impacts? Felicity Kaganas and Christine Piper

14. Grandparents and Grandchildren: Relatedness, Relationships and Responsibility Rachel Taylor

Index

Beverley Clough is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds, UK.

Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, UK.