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Full-Text Articles in Law
Child Support Policy: Guidelines And Goals, Marsha Garrison
Child Support Policy: Guidelines And Goals, Marsha Garrison
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Then Technological Family: What's New And What's Not, Marsha Garrison
Then Technological Family: What's New And What's Not, Marsha Garrison
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
What Place For Family Privacy?, Martha Albertson Fineman
What Place For Family Privacy?, Martha Albertson Fineman
Faculty Articles
This nuclear unit is thought to be in "crisis" because of the tendency of many marriages to dissemble and dissolve. Some people claim that society is also in a state of crisis as a result of marital instability. Many are concerned by the assembling of "deviant" and competing intimate entities claiming entitlement to the benefits and privileges previously extended to marriage." The family has become the symbolic terrain for the cultural war in which our society is increasingly mired. If one believes the family is not inherently limited to any essential or natural form, but is as contrived as any …
The Non-Contested Divorce: Pleadings And Procedures, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Stephanie L. Morgan, Mary E. Schoonover
The Non-Contested Divorce: Pleadings And Procedures, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Stephanie L. Morgan, Mary E. Schoonover
Continuing Legal Education Materials
Description of proceedings and sample pleadings in a non-contested divorce.
Redefining The State's Response To Domestic Violence: Past Victories And Future Challenges, Deborah Epstein
Redefining The State's Response To Domestic Violence: Past Victories And Future Challenges, Deborah Epstein
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
What role should the state play in the fight against domestic violence? Although most activists in the early domestic abuse movement viewed government institutions with a robust dose of suspicion, over time they began to look to the state for substantial assistance. During this period-the late sixties and seventies-increased hope for a positive governmental role appeared to be well-founded. The civil rights, feminist, and labor movements had pushed the federal government into expanding civil liberty guarantees and economic protections. Laws were enacted prohibiting sex- and race-based discrimination, health care got a strong boost through the creation of Medicaid and Medicare, …
Effective Intervention In Domestic Violence Cases: Rethinking The Roles Of Prosecutors, Judges, And The Court System, Deborah Epstein
Effective Intervention In Domestic Violence Cases: Rethinking The Roles Of Prosecutors, Judges, And The Court System, Deborah Epstein
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Despite over two decades of reform, fundamental failures persist in the justice system's response to domestic violence. Society now widely accepts elimination of intrafamily abuse as a crucial goal, and it has been illegal in most states since the late nineteenth century. But the problem remains one of epidemic proportions. As documented in Part I of this Article, battering by husbands, ex-husbands, or lovers is the single largest cause of injury to women in the United States, and accounts for approximately thirty percent of all murders of women. Physical aggression occurs in at least one out of four marriages, and …
The Nuttiness Of Divorce, Thomas W. Merrill
The Nuttiness Of Divorce, Thomas W. Merrill
Faculty Scholarship
The erratic, emotional "nuttiness" of divorce is predictable. Rest assured, however, you are not crazy. You are merely responding to the temporary emotional upheaval in your life. To help you better understand what you are experiencing, we have put together a brief explanation of the psychological stages or phases that accompany the legal process of divorce.
When Equal Opportunity Meets Freedom Of Expression: Student-On-Student Sexual Harassment And The First Amendment In School, Kay P. Kindred
When Equal Opportunity Meets Freedom Of Expression: Student-On-Student Sexual Harassment And The First Amendment In School, Kay P. Kindred
Scholarly Works
Sexual harassment can take a variety of forms. It can be verbal, nonverbal or physical. Often it takes the form of hateful and harassing speech. In the AAUW Survey, 76% of the girls and 56 % of the boys surveyed had been the target of sexual comments, jokes, gestures or looks. Even when the harassment includes physical contact of some nature, it is typically accompanied or preceded by verbal harassment. While school officials and parents look for solutions to these problems, courts are struggling with the questions as well. In recent years, the problem of student-on-student sexual harassment has found …
Child Care In The Postwelfare Reform Era: Analysis And Strategies For Advocates, Rebecca L. Scharf, Jo Ann C. Gong, Alice Bussiere, Jennifer Light, Marc Cohan, Sherry Leiwant
Child Care In The Postwelfare Reform Era: Analysis And Strategies For Advocates, Rebecca L. Scharf, Jo Ann C. Gong, Alice Bussiere, Jennifer Light, Marc Cohan, Sherry Leiwant
Scholarly Works
Adequate child care is essential to enable poor women to support their families with work outside the home. In 1994 the U.S. General Accounting Office found that offering a child care subsidy to poor mothers increased the likelihood by 15 percent that the mothers would work. An Illinois study found that 20 percent of parents who left public assistance for work returned to assistance because of child care problems. In Minnesota a study found that lack of child care caused 14 percent of parents awaiting child care subsidies to leave their jobs and rely on public assistance. These studies confirm …
Cloning And The Preservation Of Family Integrity, David Orentlicher
Cloning And The Preservation Of Family Integrity, David Orentlicher
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
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
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Poverty, Race, And New Directions In Child Welfare Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
Poverty, Race, And New Directions In Child Welfare Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Herd Behavior In Designer Genes, Peter H. Huang
Herd Behavior In Designer Genes, Peter H. Huang
Publications
The ability of individuals to choose their children's genes has increased over time and may ultimately culminate in a world involving free market reprogenetic technologies. Reprogenetic technologies combine advances in reproductive biology and genetics to provide humans increased control over their children's genes. This Article offers economic perspectives that are helpful in understanding the possibly unexpected ethical, legal, and social issues at stake in using reprogenetic technologies for trait enhancement selection. The Appendix analyzes two competitive games that might arise in such a biotechnological society. Specifically, the Article focuses on herd behavior, caused by either a popularity contest or positional …
Child Care And Federal Tax Policy (Symposium: Women, Equity And Federal Tax Policy: Open Questions), Ann F. Thomas
Child Care And Federal Tax Policy (Symposium: Women, Equity And Federal Tax Policy: Open Questions), Ann F. Thomas
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
A Child's Right To Physical Integrity, Suellyn Scarnecchia
A Child's Right To Physical Integrity, Suellyn Scarnecchia
Articles
As we wring our hands over increasing reports of severe child abuse and how violent many of our children have become, it might be time to reassess policies that give parents and others the license to use even the most mild forms of violence against our children.
Modern Coverture: Old Wine In Old Bottles, William P. Lapiana
Modern Coverture: Old Wine In Old Bottles, William P. Lapiana
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Becoming A Citizen: Reconstruction Era Regulation Of African American Marriages, Katherine M. Franke
Becoming A Citizen: Reconstruction Era Regulation Of African American Marriages, Katherine M. Franke
Faculty Scholarship
While many Black people regarded slavery as a form of social death, some nineteenth-century white policy-makers extolled the virtues of slavery as a tool to uplift the characters of Africans in America: "[Slavery in America] has been the lever by which five million human beings have been elevated from the degraded and benighted condition of savage life ... to a knowledge of their responsibilities to God and their relations to society," observed a Kentucky Congressman in 1860. These sentiments were echoed by abolitionist northern officers not three years later when the institution of marriage was lauded for its civilizing effect …
Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl Schneider
Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl Schneider
Book Chapters
At the heart of our difficulty in approaching neonatal euthanasia lie the intractable questions it raises: What is human life? When is death preferable to life? What do parents owe their children? What does society owe the suffering? Those moral questions could hardly be more perplexing, yet they are further complicated when they must be resolved not informally and case by case, but through generally applicable social rules. This is so for numerous reasons. For instance, the wide range of deeply held opinions about neonatal euthanasia makes rules hard to formulate, and the wide range of factual situations in which …
The Defense Of Traditional Marriage, George W. Dent
The Defense Of Traditional Marriage, George W. Dent
Faculty Publications
This article reviews the possible justifications for legal recognition of marriage and finds some, such as encouraging stable, loving relationships, unpersuasive. However, other rationales-including protecting children, socializing adults, and promoting individual happiness-are valid, and these rationales apply only to traditional marriages. Accordingly, society has strong reasons to favor traditional marriage and to deny such treatment to the unmarried and to homosexual, endogamous and bestial relationships.