The Best Interests of the Child: The Least Detrimental Alternative (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684835464)

In The Best Interests of the Child, published between 1973 and 1986, the authors speak in one voice in concluding that the continuity of care - continuity of a child's relationship with his or her adult caregiver - is a universal essential to the child's well-being.

The authors stress that minimizing intrusions by the law is paramount to safeguarding the child's growth and development. The least detrimental alternative - the authors overarching guideline for assuring the continuity of the psychological parent-child relationship - has been cited in more than a thousand child custody cases since 1973.

Author: Joseph Goldstein, Albert J. Solnit, Sonja Goldstein
ISBN-10: 0684835460
ISBN-13: 9780684835464
Publisher: Free Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/1998
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d