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PARENTING RESPONSIBILITY [1 record]

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Record 1 2017-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

Guardians have what the law calls "parental responsibilities" for the children. These include your responsibility to: make daily decisions about your child; have daily care and supervision of your child; decide where your child will live; decide who your child will associate with; apply for passports; receive information from others about your child (for example, about health and education); and make decisions about your child's education, religious upbringing, extracurricular activities, healthcare, and other important issues.

OBS

parental responsibility; parenting responsibility; parent responsibility: terms usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • parental responsibilities
  • parenting responsibilities
  • parent responsibilities
  • responsibiity of a parent

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

responsabilité parentale : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

responsabilité parentale : terme au pluriel (responsabilités parentales) tiré du Mini-lexique de la garde des enfants et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Key term(s)
  • responsabilités parentales

Spanish

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