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  • 19 - Parenting and mental illness. Legal frameworks and issues – some international comparisons

  • from Part IV - Specific treatments and service needs
    • By Amy Weir, Children and Family Services, London Borough of Harrow, London, UK
  • Edited by Michael Göpfert, Webb House Democratic Therapeutic Community, Crewe, Jeni Webster, 5 Boroughs Partnership, Warrington, Mary V. Seeman, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Parental Psychiatric Disorder
    Published online:
    09 August 2009
    Print publication:
    13 May 2004, pp 271-284

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the legal frameworks which may apply to families affected by mental illness from a UK and an international perspective. In most countries legal frameworks have been established to regulate the relationship between the individual, the family and the state. In particular, the safeguarding of children's welfare is covered by legal provision to ensure that children's needs are met and that they are safely cared for. In the UK and elsewhere, there is also provision to support families and parents to care for their children, whenever this is possible. As far as mentally ill parents are concerned, there is also separate legal provision to safeguard and support their needs. The evidence from comparing the legal frameworks in several different countries shows how similarities in legal provision mean that families will experience the same level of, or nature of, service to support them.