Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Austraian Legal System in Adressing Family Issues
Evaluate the effectiveness of the Australian legal system in recognising and protecting the changing nature of the family’.
Society has often advanced quicker than the Legal system and often the Legal system tends to lag behind or sometimes has to tend to societal values. An area that the legal system seems to be addressing with respects to societal values is through recognising and protecting the changing nature of the family. The Australian Legal system has been moderately effective in recognising and protecting the changing nature of the family, through various legislation, and common law the Legal system has effectively been able to recognise and protect the changing nature of the family in regards to key areas such as de facto relationships, same sex marriages, rights of the children, divorce and adoption as well as recognising multiple different types of relationships in the country. However there have been some ineffective stances of the Australian legal system in recognizing and protecting the changing nature of the family for example statistics highlighting that one third of children in separated families never seeing their fathers as well as the inability for same sex couples to get married.
Australia has proven effective in recognising the changing nature of the families, an example of this is the recognition of different families. Most families fall under the legal status of marriage which derives from the case of Hyde Vs Woodmansee (1866) which states”marriage is a voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others “. The nuclear family- a husband and wife and a child, blended family- a husband and a wife from separated relationships with step children, extended families- were more than just the mother and father are staying under the one household, and finally the increasing mixed family revealed in the article “Well be a nation of new migrants”, revealing Australia’s quick response in dealing and with and
Society has often advanced quicker than the Legal system and often the Legal system tends to lag behind or sometimes has to tend to societal values. An area that the legal system seems to be addressing with respects to societal values is through recognising and protecting the changing nature of the family. The Australian Legal system has been moderately effective in recognising and protecting the changing nature of the family, through various legislation, and common law the Legal system has effectively been able to recognise and protect the changing nature of the family in regards to key areas such as de facto relationships, same sex marriages, rights of the children, divorce and adoption as well as recognising multiple different types of relationships in the country. However there have been some ineffective stances of the Australian legal system in recognizing and protecting the changing nature of the family for example statistics highlighting that one third of children in separated families never seeing their fathers as well as the inability for same sex couples to get married.
Australia has proven effective in recognising the changing nature of the families, an example of this is the recognition of different families. Most families fall under the legal status of marriage which derives from the case of Hyde Vs Woodmansee (1866) which states”marriage is a voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others “. The nuclear family- a husband and wife and a child, blended family- a husband and a wife from separated relationships with step children, extended families- were more than just the mother and father are staying under the one household, and finally the increasing mixed family revealed in the article “Well be a nation of new migrants”, revealing Australia’s quick response in dealing and with and