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RESPONSABILITE PARENTALE [2 records]

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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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Record 2 2017-03-30

English

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

In Canada and the United States, the term parental responsibility refers to the potential or actual liability that may be incurred by parents for the behavior of their children.

French

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

Spanish

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