Search Results for child support

...Lynne Haney Drawing on interviews with formerly incarcerated fathers and court observations of child-support hearings, this article explores the state’s role in the massive accumulation of child-support debt. Arguing that this role is too often hidden from view, the article demystifies how much...

... of the media coverage of the deaths of 166 children in 2000–2001, which could have been prevented had the children’s families been able to access the child support grant, the government cash transfer for poor and indigent children. The second example considers how the slavish rollout of a cost-recovery...

... the transition from prison inmate to peer researcher. In addition to these three articles, this dossier showcases the remarkable work of a colleague, Lynne Haney, who profiles what incarcerated fatherhood looks like when it is burdened by child-support debt, mostly owed to what she calls the deadbeat state...

... at the intersection of the criminal justice and child-support systems, analyzing how those systems work together to trap parents in cycles of debt and punishment. Yoshihiko Ichida is Professor at Kobe University, a philosopher, and author recently of Louis Althusser, philosophie d un disparu (in Japanese, 2018...

... a relatively light burden of child support to escape responsibility for the education of youth in communities where the burden of child care is disproportionately heavy. In this connection, moreover, the fact cannot be overlooked that rural communities care for and educate large numbers of persons who later...

... successfully campaigned against an amnesty attempt for perpetrators of child abuse. During Turkey's withdrawal procedures from the Istanbul Convention, the collective regrouped under a more inclusive platform of more than 300 organizations and 150 supporters, including trade unions, chambers of professionals...

..., but it s going to go past us. Hopefully, this research will lead to change in New York state prisons, whether they look more into the commissary costs, or child support, or the fines and fees and other penalties, like parole, that come with being incarcerated. Derick: Like Vincent, I hope it changes...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly professional elite? During years when in many states birth-control devices and information were illegal, some asked, Would an ERA properly protect women s marriage and child-support rights? Unlike the earlier constitu­ tional struggle in which women argued over tactics...

... never became politicized, or only insofar as existing images were deemed antifeminist. One initial action by wac consisted of a brief takeover of Grand Central Station during the commuter rush hour to protest the nonpayment of child support by millions of scofflaw dads. As the legal theorist Paulette...

..., to be erected. Thus began a dual system in which both church schools and board schools drew support from public funds. This move did little to reduce complexity, but at last each child in England was entitled as a matter of public responsibility to have a primary school within reach; for those who could not pay...

... of the Court’s constitutional support for child-pornography laws may pose more of a threat to the cultural and constitutional values of free expression than that which results from the community control of obscenity. It is telling...

... and ten years of age, working in these factories. In every instance it was claimed that the child was the sole support of an indigent parent. Experience has demonstrated that claims like these in the majority of instances are not bona fide, and arise rather from parental avarice, than from parental...

...). A thornier issue was obedience—a recalcitrant wife was ordered by Muslim courts to return to her husband’s house.40 The union demanded scrapping the law and succeeded in doing so in 1969 (“Hawl,” 31). In mat- ters of alimony and child support, sharia judges had early on asked for deducting...

... it awkwardly among feminisms that are preoccupied by less child-­centered issues.5 The history of the relationships among feminisms, the maternity reform movement, and miscarriage support groups that have emerged in Australia in recent decades remains to be written, yet the testimonies published...

... and creation in the form of symbolic play, are the many inscriptions of death that mark the human body from birth on. One of Freud s claims for his formula­ tion of the death drive, for which this child s game is after all meant as a supportive example, is that everything living dies for internal reasons. 26...

... of the person who works outside the home in the public sphere by providing support to the biological reproduc- tion of the worker s body and strength, as well as a replacement worker in the form of child rearing. In the form of care, love, and nurture, it also reassures the worker of his humanity, allowing him...

... argue that every parent should have equal financial support for each child he educates, and should have the option of choosing between private and public schools. This, so the argument goes, is the only way of granting equal opportunity to all. Not so, reply the dissenters. It is ridiculous, they say...

... furnishes; and a combination of an ordinary day school for the child and of night classes for adults, with the industrial training alternating with the other, makes a practical self-supporting system of education of much merit. The child is thus surrounded by a genuine atmosphere of work with the economic...

... is any and every form of nurture that stimulates the child to keep on living. Domes­ ticity is inevitably one of these modes; whatever griefs it causes chil­ dren, if we condemn the ideology of parenting and of the family altogether, we are suggesting that supporting children s lives is not just...

... The Afterlife of the Romantic Child 219 with evidence. Referring to a case in which ‘‘the police’’ had been ‘‘unable to find anything’’ that might support ‘‘the notion of violence Hocqueng- hem pointed out that the lack of evidence...