... befitting their status in society. Lawsuits over custody were more complicated, as they not only pitted mothers against fathers but also parents against third parties who took children into their homes as servants. Although the law favored fathers in the case of legitimate children and mothers in the case...

...Women in Custody ...

... family law alimony child support custody Siete Partidas ...

... women and drug use welfare reform prenatal substance exposure child custody family ...

... is shaping public perceptions about the individual and social consequences of addicted pregnancy. In the daily-rent hotels, when child custody was severed by the state, women turned to “kin of last resort”—relatives called upon to take custody of children to avoid their placement in the foster care system...

... on patients in custody who died after these treatments. Wetli used Bell's mania to claim that “spontaneous” deaths do, in fact, occur in custody. Second, the author explores Wetli's citation of “lynching media” to justify excited delirium syndrome. Racist media claimed that Black people have “superhuman...

... born out of wedlock, and to adult legitimate offspring who were not self-supporting at a level befitting their status in society. Lawsuits over custody were more complicated, as they not only pitted mothers against fathers but also parents against third parties who took children into their homes...

... opens up to the savoir of res nulla loquitur , the no thing that speaks. The sound of this speech, which comes from the outside of jurisdiction, is a murmuring that persists in response to Sandra Bland’s own questions about the significance of her arrest, detention, and death in custody. res...

... The coda grapples with the grammar of black futurity at a crucial historical juncture that has witnessed a string of hauntingly similar killings of unarmed black men at the hands of or in the custody of police. It assesses the frequency of a set of (self-)identification photographs: Tumblr...