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Women And Children First: An Examination Of The Unique Needs Of Women In Prison, Terri L. Schupak
Women And Children First: An Examination Of The Unique Needs Of Women In Prison, Terri L. Schupak
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Comment will examine the deficiencies of the prison prenatal care system. It will discuss current litigation in terms of its impact on the prison staff to effectuate change and its possible influence upon future litigation. Further, three states' models for permitting the retention of physical custody of a child by an incarcerated mother will be investigated.
Defining Sex: On Marriage, Family, And Good Public Policy, Mark Strasser
Defining Sex: On Marriage, Family, And Good Public Policy, Mark Strasser
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
Transgendered individuals and their families face legal risks that most families do not, at least in part, because state laws are often unclear about whether or under what conditions transgendered individuals are permitted to marry the individuals whom they love. Challenges to the validity of marriages involving the transgendered may arise under a variety of circumstances, ranging from cases in which individuals may have hidden or may not even have known that they were transgendered until after their marriages, to cases in which the individuals had already transitioned and had explained their personal histories to their partners before they were …