Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding

Islamic law has one of its objectives, the protection of people in general and children in particular. Foster care is one of the ways in which this objective is realized. The paper argues that Islamic law recognizes foster care as one of the means of protection to children who are in need of care a...

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Main Author: Mohd, Azizah
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Language:English
Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI), Jordan 2011
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spelling iium-176272012-04-06T08:03:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/17627/ Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding Mohd, Azizah KBP Islamic Law Islamic law has one of its objectives, the protection of people in general and children in particular. Foster care is one of the ways in which this objective is realized. The paper argues that Islamic law recognizes foster care as one of the means of protection to children who are in need of care and protection. The paper therefore distinguishes between foster care in Islamic law and adoption and the position of I slam on the two seeming but contradictory concepts. It also discusses the relationship between foster care and suckling of a child not biologically related and submits that foster care in relation with breastfeeding of the foster children would promote and offer an adequate protection to the children who are in need of it. American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI), Jordan 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/17627/1/Protection_of_children.pdf Mohd, Azizah (2011) Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding. Journal of Applied Sciences Research, 7 (13). pp. 2230-2239. ISSN 1819-544X http://aensionline.com/jasr/jasr/2011/2230-2239.pdf
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Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding
description Islamic law has one of its objectives, the protection of people in general and children in particular. Foster care is one of the ways in which this objective is realized. The paper argues that Islamic law recognizes foster care as one of the means of protection to children who are in need of care and protection. The paper therefore distinguishes between foster care in Islamic law and adoption and the position of I slam on the two seeming but contradictory concepts. It also discusses the relationship between foster care and suckling of a child not biologically related and submits that foster care in relation with breastfeeding of the foster children would promote and offer an adequate protection to the children who are in need of it.
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author Mohd, Azizah
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title Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding
title_short Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding
title_full Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding
title_fullStr Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding
title_full_unstemmed Protection of children through foster care under Islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding
title_sort protection of children through foster care under islamic law: sustaining foster children protection through breastfeeding
publisher American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI), Jordan
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/17627/
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