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Reciprocity, Utility, And The Law Of Aggression, Anita Bernstein
Reciprocity, Utility, And The Law Of Aggression, Anita Bernstein
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Crystals And Mud In Bankruptcy Law: Judicial Competence And Statutory Design, Edward J. Janger
Crystals And Mud In Bankruptcy Law: Judicial Competence And Statutory Design, Edward J. Janger
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Growing Up Dependent: Family Preservation In Early Twentieth-Century Chicago, David S. Tanenhaus
Growing Up Dependent: Family Preservation In Early Twentieth-Century Chicago, David S. Tanenhaus
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Beginning in 1911 with Illinois’ passage of the Funds to Parents Act—the first statewide mothers’ pensions legislation—the Chicago Juvenile Court built a two-track system for dependency cases that used the gender of single parents to track their children. The first or “institutional” track followed a nineteenth century model of family preservation that poor families had relied upon since before the Civil War, in which parents had used institutions to provide short-term care for their children during hard times. The juvenile court also established a “home-based” track for dependency that reflected a new model of family preservation. Progressive child-savers denounced the …