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Parents. Children, and Work-First Welfare Reform: Where is the C in TANF?
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This article is published in Maryland Law Review.The article was published on 2002-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Welfare reform & Work (electrical).read more
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Wage-Poor Mothers and Moral Economy
TL;DR: This article explored the subaltern work and family care practices of 300 low-wage women and found that their work habits orbit around keeping children safe and defy market norms, representing a hidden challenge to an economic ideology that subordinates humanity to the market.
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The International Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Catalyst for Innovative Child Care Policies
Martha F. Davis,Roslyn Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the Children's Rights Convention, analyzing the Convention's impact on childcare in ratifying countries and conclude that framing childcare as a human rights concern might shift the internal politics of the issue by energizing advocates as well as enlisting new sources of pressure to combat this aspect of the US policy of exceptionalism.
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Chalimony: Seeking Equity between Parents of Children with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses
TL;DR: This article proposes addressing some of the resource problems of families with disabled and chronically ill children through the creation of a new inter-parental financial remedy which it justifies on the grounds of economic fairness to the payor parent, gender fairness to the caregiving parent, and the value of chalimony to the child.
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Human Oocyte Cryopreservation: Ethical Solutions May Lead to Legal Complications
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the ethical and legal issues that result from the availability of human oocyte cryopreservation.