This issue features articles on:

1. universal ethical issues and many additional requirements imposed by the family law jurisdiction;
2. the different types of surrogacy and regulatory approaches taken by states, and some of the ethical and legal concerns arising out of surrogacy;
3. the evolution of adoption law and practice in Australia and the need to safeguard the welfare of all adopted children;
4. the prevalence and incidence of shared-time parenting arrangements;
5. corporal punishment of children and what Singapore and international law has to say about the use of punitive force on children by parents;
6. how mediation has been successfully used to resolve child abduction issues for Hague and non-Hague Convention countries;
7. how family justice may be traced to our substantive law regulating spousal and parental behaviour dating back to the very enactment of the Women’s Charter in 1961;
8. the evolution of innovations, initiatives and programmes of family justice courts over time;
9. child protection laws and legal processes in child protection cases;
10. the historical cases which exposed the conundrum in the area of jurisdiction over Muslim children in custody cases and the manner in which the courts and the legislation handled such problems; and
11. the scientific, ethical, diagnostic and legal issues related to parental alienation syndrome.