Kindeswohl interdisziplinär

This book closes the gap between norms, judicial interpretations and empirical results of the human scientific consensus in order to better define the undetermined legal term of a "child’s best interests". The first part of the book presents the legal foundation and constitutional and Supreme Court judgments concerning the "child’s best interests"; this forms the framework for the second part which presents the corresponding empirical facts from the human sciences. The human sciences provide a value system corresponding to the judicial decision criteria and thus a measure for assessing the child’s best interests in an individual case and putting decision finding on a fact-based foundation. This interdisciplinary approach of a human science commentary on judicial criteria for a child’s best interests can help family courts, expert witnesses and people with a professional interest in the subject.