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Throwing The Baby Out With The Patriarchy, Scott Titshaw
Throwing The Baby Out With The Patriarchy, Scott Titshaw
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Throughout the history of Europe and its former new world colonies, families have been a central unit for defining legal rights and duties, including those related to citizenship and immigration. Less than a century ago, a woman and her children automatically gained or lost citizenship in the U.S. and many other countries upon her marriage to a citizen or noncitizen. The family was treated as one unit reflecting the legal identity of the father-husband as “head of family.”
Fortunately, the United States and other governments have increasingly recognized women – and, to a lesser extent, children – as independent persons …