Social Information in Court Decisions of Compulsory Child Adoption in Israel

Autor/in	Ben-David, Vered
Titel	Social Information in Court Decisions of Compulsory Child Adoption in Israel
Quelle	In: Child & Youth Care Forum, 40 (2011) 3, S.233-249 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1053-1890
DOI	10.1007/s10566-010-9133-3
Schlagwörter	Priming; Judges; Courts; Laws; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Adoption; Decision Making; Guidelines; Sexuality; Family (Sociological Unit); Role; Parent Background; Placement; Public Policy; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Judge; Richter; Court; Gerichtshof; Law; Recht; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Richtlinien; Sexualität; Familie; Rollen; Elternhaus; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Öffentliche Ordnung
Abstract	Ambiguity over the concepts of "parental capability" and "the child's best interests" in the Israeli adoption law, and a lack of sufficient professional knowledge can lead to bias in the professional decision-making process regarding child adoption. This study investigates the idea that judges do not use only legal considerations and relevant information relating to the child-parent relationship but also social information about the biological parent whose parental capability is under legal consideration. The study makes use of the priming paradigm as a conceptual framework for understanding the possible effect of social information on legal judgments in child adoption cases. The textual narrative analysis of 130 court decisions in favor of compulsory adoption reveals the use in courts of three kinds of social information about biological parents: familial information, sexual information, and social-functional information. The study discusses the role of such information in establishing the judicial narrative of parental incapability. In order to "de-bias" the judicial decision-making process regarding child placement, a number of strategies for consideration as social policy are proposed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10