 Contributors to the "Journal" have commented upon issues such as same-sex domestic partnerships, the relevance of race to child custody, the impact of domestic violence on child access, equality rights in adoption reform, and how father's rights relate to child support.The "Canadian Journal of Family Law" was established at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University following a conversation in 1976 between Professor Graham Parker and a second-year law student, Gene C. Colman.The two were concerned by the lack of an interdisciplinarian Canadian journal in the field, and encouraged the university to seize the opportunity to publish in family law.