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Forming Families By Law - Adoption In America Today, Joan Hollinger, Naomi Cahn
Forming Families By Law - Adoption In America Today, Joan Hollinger, Naomi Cahn
Joan Hollinger
The article focuses on the laws related to adoption in the U.S. It is stated that there is a long history in the U.S. of some children being raised by adults other than their biological parents, but legal recognition of these families was not generally available until states began enacting formal adoption laws in the mid-nineteenth century. By legitimizing a parent-child relationship between biogenetic strangers, adoption strikes some skeptics.
Earned Income Tax Credit Portability: Respecting The Autonomy Of American Families, Mary Leto Pareja
Earned Income Tax Credit Portability: Respecting The Autonomy Of American Families, Mary Leto Pareja
Faculty Scholarship
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was a key component of the welfare reform movement that began in the 1970s and expanded in the 1990s. Politicians and the public saw the EITC as a helping hand to working families -- a way to make work pay.' The EITC today is the single largest federal anti-poverty program in the United States. Although the EITC clearly is targeted at families with children, it is not optimally structured to improve child welfare. The current rules limit EITC eligibility to a taxpayer who lives with a child more than six months of the year, …