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The Loving Story: Using A Documentary To Reconsider The Status Of An Iconic Interracial Married Couple, Regina Austin
The Loving Story: Using A Documentary To Reconsider The Status Of An Iconic Interracial Married Couple, Regina Austin
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The Loving Story (Augusta Films 2011), directed by Nancy Buirski, tells the backstory of the groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, that overturned state laws barring interracial marriage. The article looks to the documentary to explain why the Lovings should be considered icons of racial and ethnic civil rights, however much they might be associated with marriage equality today. The film shows the Lovings to be ordinary people who took their nearly decade long struggle against white supremacy to the nation’s highest court out of a genuine commitment to each other and a determination to live in …
Foundling Fathers: (Non-)Marriage And Parental Rights In The Age Of Equality, Serena Mayeri
Foundling Fathers: (Non-)Marriage And Parental Rights In The Age Of Equality, Serena Mayeri
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The twentieth-century equality revolution established the principle of sex neutrality in the law of marriage and divorce and eased the most severe legal disabilities traditionally imposed upon nonmarital children. Formal equality under the law eluded nonmarital parents, however. Although unwed fathers won unprecedented legal rights and recognition in a series of Supreme Court cases decided in the 1970s and 1980s, they failed to achieve constitutional parity with mothers or with married and divorced fathers. This Article excavates nonmarital fathers’ quest for equal rights, until now a mere footnote in the history of constitutional equality law.
Unmarried fathers lacked a social …
The Reverberating Risk Of Long-Term Care, Allison K. Hoffman
The Reverberating Risk Of Long-Term Care, Allison K. Hoffman
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The Fiftieth Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid offers an opportunity to reflect on how American social policy has conceived of the problem of long-term care. In this essay, based on a longer forthcoming article, I argue that current policies adopt too narrow a conception of long-term care risk, by focusing on the effect of serious illness and disability on people who need care and not on the friends and family who often provide it. I propose a more complete view of long-term care risk that acknowledges how illness and disability reverberates through communities, posing insecurity for people beyond those in …
Marital Supremacy And The Constitution Of The Nonmarital Family, Serena Mayeri
Marital Supremacy And The Constitution Of The Nonmarital Family, Serena Mayeri
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Despite a transformative half century of social change, marital status still matters. The marriage equality movement has drawn attention to the many benefits conferred in law by marriage at a time when the “marriage gap” between affluent and poor Americans widens and rates of nonmarital childbearing soar. This Essay explores the contested history of marital supremacy—the legal privileging of marriage—through the lens of the “illegitimacy” cases of the 1960s and 1970s. Often remembered as a triumph for nonmarital families, these decisions defined the constitutional harm of illegitimacy classifications as the unjust punishment of innocent children for the “sins” of their …
Historicizing The "End Of Men": The Politics Of Reaction(S), Serena Mayeri
Historicizing The "End Of Men": The Politics Of Reaction(S), Serena Mayeri
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Examining Gender Stereotypes In New Work/Family Reconciliation Policies: The Creation Of A New Paradigm For Egalitarian Legislation, Rangita De Silva De Alwis
Examining Gender Stereotypes In New Work/Family Reconciliation Policies: The Creation Of A New Paradigm For Egalitarian Legislation, Rangita De Silva De Alwis
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Immigration, Association, And The Family, Matthew J. Lister
Immigration, Association, And The Family, Matthew J. Lister
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In this paper I provide a philosophical analysis of family-based immigration. This type of immigration is of great importance, yet has received relatively little attention from philosophers and others doing normative work on immigration. As family-based immigration poses significant challenges for those seeking a comprehensive normative account of the limits of discretion that states should have in setting their own immigration policies, it is a topic that must be dealt with if we are to have a comprehensive account. In what follows I use the idea of freedom of association to show what is distinctive about family-based immigration and why …
Well-Being, Inequality And Time: The Time-Slice Problem And Its Policy Implications, Matthew D. Adler
Well-Being, Inequality And Time: The Time-Slice Problem And Its Policy Implications, Matthew D. Adler
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Should equality be viewed from a lifetime or “sublifetime” perspective? In measuring the inequality of income, for example, should we measure the inequality of lifetime income or of annual income? In characterizing a tax as “progressive” or “regressive,” should we look to whether the annual tax burden increases with annual income, or instead to whether the lifetime tax burden increases with lifetime income? Should the overriding aim of anti-poverty programs be to reduce chronic poverty: being badly off for many years, because of low human capital or other long-run factors? Or is the moral claim of the impoverished person a …
Child Welfare's Paradox, Dorothy E. Roberts
Child Welfare's Paradox, Dorothy E. Roberts
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Mandatory Waiting Periods For Abortions And Female Mental Health, Jonathan Klick
Mandatory Waiting Periods For Abortions And Female Mental Health, Jonathan Klick
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Proponents of laws requiring a waiting period before a woman can receive an abortion argue that these cooling off periods protect against rash decisions on the part of women in the event of unplanned pregnancies. Opponents claim, at best, waiting periods have no effect on decision-making and, at worst, they subject women to additional mental anguish and stress. In this article, I examine these competing claims using adult female suicide rates at the state level as a proxy for mental health. Panel data analyses suggest that the adoption of mandatory waiting periods reduce suicide rates by about 10 percent, and …
The Community Dimension Of State Child Protection, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Community Dimension Of State Child Protection, Dorothy E. Roberts
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Black Club Women And Child Welfare: Lessons For Modern Reform, Dorothy E. Roberts
Black Club Women And Child Welfare: Lessons For Modern Reform, Dorothy E. Roberts
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Bankruptcy's Home Economics, David A. Skeel Jr.
Bankruptcy's Home Economics, David A. Skeel Jr.
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This essay began its life as a commentary on Elizabeth Warren’s article “The New Economics of the American Family” at the American Bankruptcy Institute's 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Bankruptcy Code in 2003. (Both the Warren article and my commentary were published in the symposium in the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review.) “The New Economics of the American Family” was drawn in many respects from then-Professor Warren’s co-authored book, The Two Income Trap. The essay refers to both, though it puts particular emphasis on the article. The essay begins by briefly describing the basic thesis of the article-- …
Welfare Reform And Economic Freedom: Low-Income Mothers' Decisions About Work At Home And In The Market, Dorothy E. Roberts
Welfare Reform And Economic Freedom: Low-Income Mothers' Decisions About Work At Home And In The Market, Dorothy E. Roberts
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Econometric Analyses Of U.S. Abortion Policy: A Critical Review, Jonathan Klick
Econometric Analyses Of U.S. Abortion Policy: A Critical Review, Jonathan Klick
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Welfare Reform And Families In The Child Welfare System, Morgan B. Ward Doran, Dorothy E. Roberts
Welfare Reform And Families In The Child Welfare System, Morgan B. Ward Doran, Dorothy E. Roberts
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Kinship Care And The Price Of State Support For Children, Dorothy E. Roberts
Kinship Care And The Price Of State Support For Children, Dorothy E. Roberts
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Is There A Caring Crisis?, Amy L. Wax
Is There Justice In Children's Rights?: The Critique Of Federal Family Preservation Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
Is There Justice In Children's Rights?: The Critique Of Federal Family Preservation Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
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The Challenge Of Substance Abuse For Family Preservation Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Challenge Of Substance Abuse For Family Preservation Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
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Poverty, Race, And New Directions In Child Welfare Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
Poverty, Race, And New Directions In Child Welfare Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
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The Two-Parent Family In The Liberal State: The Case For Selective Subsidies, Amy L. Wax
The Two-Parent Family In The Liberal State: The Case For Selective Subsidies, Amy L. Wax
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Irrationality And Sacrifice In The Welfare Reform Consensus, Dorothy E. Roberts
Irrationality And Sacrifice In The Welfare Reform Consensus, Dorothy E. Roberts
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Is Equal Access The Prescription For Equity?, Victor Sidel, Dorothy E. Roberts, Jennifer Dohrn, Kathy Anastos, Nitza Milagros Escalera, Peter Holland, Sylvia Kleinman, Sylvia Law, Jack O'Sullivan, Robert Padgug, Dennis Rivera, Beth Weitzman
Is Equal Access The Prescription For Equity?, Victor Sidel, Dorothy E. Roberts, Jennifer Dohrn, Kathy Anastos, Nitza Milagros Escalera, Peter Holland, Sylvia Kleinman, Sylvia Law, Jack O'Sullivan, Robert Padgug, Dennis Rivera, Beth Weitzman
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The Only Good Poor Woman: Unconstitutional Conditions And Welfare, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Only Good Poor Woman: Unconstitutional Conditions And Welfare, Dorothy E. Roberts
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The Value Of Black Mothers' Work, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Value Of Black Mothers' Work, Dorothy E. Roberts
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The Black Surrogate Mother, Anita L. Allen
The Black Surrogate Mother, Anita L. Allen
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Gerontology And The Law: A Selected Bibliography, 1948-85 Update, Pauline M. Aranas, Mary Jo Brazil, Paul M. George
Gerontology And The Law: A Selected Bibliography, 1948-85 Update, Pauline M. Aranas, Mary Jo Brazil, Paul M. George
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