Harry Willekens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Willekens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry |
| FAMILY NAME | Willekens |
| SIGNATURE | WILLEKENS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Motherhood and the Law
Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family reconstitutions, gay and lesbian emancipation or surrog…
Introduction: Path-dependencies and Change in Child-care and Preschool Institutions in Europe — Historical and Institutional Perspectives
Public child care and collective forms of education in early childhood have already been well researched, not only from a national but also from a comparative perspective.1 It might not be very productive to add to this literature, were it not that the available research is strongly dominated by a relatively short-range social policy perspective. Where comparison is practised, it focuses on developments of the last decades, which are virtually al…
Childcare and Preschool Development in Europe
This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms originat
Rights and Duties of Underage Parents: A Comparative Approach
Underage parents are caught in a legal contradiction between their status as parents and their status as minors. As parents, they are responsible for protecting, rearing and representing their children; as minors, they lack the rights required to fulfil parental duties. This paper takes a look at the different ways in which legal systems deal with the contradiction. The position of underage parents in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands is stud…
Is Contemporary Western Family Law Historically Unique
Over the past decades, a wave of family law reforms has shaken the very foundations of family law as known in the West over the past centuries. Strict gender equality has been introduced, the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children has been abolished, divorce has been facilitated, and the borderlines between marriage and cohabitation and between heterosexual and homosexual relations are fading. Is this new family law historically…
Introduction: The Deep Roots, Stirring Present, and Uncertain Future of Family Law
Is Contemporary Western Family Law Historically Unique
Over the past decades, a wave of family law reforms has shaken the very foundations of family law as known in the West over the past centuries. Strict gender equality has been introduced, the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children has been abolished, divorce has been facilitated, and the borderlines between marriage and cohabitation and between heterosexual and homosexual relations are fading. Is this new family law historically…
Is Contemporary Western Family Law Historically Unique
Over the past decades, a wave of family law reforms has shaken the very foundations of family law as known in the West over the past centuries. Strict gender equality has been introduced, the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children has been abolished, divorce has been facilitated, and the borderlines between marriage and cohabitation and between heterosexual and homosexual relations are fading. Is this new family law historically…
Introduction: The Deep Roots, Stirring Present, and Uncertain Future of Family Law
Rights and Duties of Underage Parents: A Comparative Approach
Underage parents are caught in a legal contradiction between their status as parents and their status as minors. As parents, they are responsible for protecting, rearing and representing their children; as minors, they lack the rights required to fulfil parental duties. This paper takes a look at the different ways in which legal systems deal with the contradiction. The position of underage parents in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands is stud…
Introduction: Path-dependencies and Change in Child-care and Preschool Institutions in Europe — Historical and Institutional Perspectives
Public child care and collective forms of education in early childhood have already been well researched, not only from a national but also from a comparative perspective.1 It might not be very productive to add to this literature, were it not that the available research is strongly dominated by a relatively short-range social policy perspective. Where comparison is practised, it focuses on developments of the last decades, which are virtually al…
Childcare and Preschool Development in Europe
This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms originat
Motherhood and the Law
Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family reconstitutions, gay and lesbian emancipation or surrog…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Business (1 works)