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‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life. (2013)
Journal Article
(2013). ‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 347-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2013.801688

Current law and social policy in the various UK legal systems privilege the conjugal couple, biological and filial relationships. Friendship remains on the margins of regulatory recognition. Yet friendship is of growing significance in contemporary s... Read More about ‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life..