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Dirty Harry Meets Dirty Diapers: Masculinities, At-Home Fathers & Making The Law Work For Families, Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid Dec 2012

Dirty Harry Meets Dirty Diapers: Masculinities, At-Home Fathers & Making The Law Work For Families, Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid

Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid

Who is the “man”? Implicit in that question is whether the man at issue demonstrates traits traditionally associated with masculinity: traits such as power, rejecting all things associated with being female, aggression, and being the family breadwinner. If a man, then, abandons paid work and stays at home full-time with his children, is he still a “man” as typically defined? The answer to this question bears both on whether families are truly evolving away from the gendered construct that places men as family breadwinners and women as caregivers and whether work-family balance law meets the needs of these—and all—families. This …


Editorial, Child Support: Benefit Would Last Beyond Payer’S Death Under Proposed Change In Custody Law, J. Palmer Lockard Ii, Mary Kate Kearney Jun 1998

Editorial, Child Support: Benefit Would Last Beyond Payer’S Death Under Proposed Change In Custody Law, J. Palmer Lockard Ii, Mary Kate Kearney

J. Palmer Lockard II

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