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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedY.D. Wells & T.M. Johnson, Journal of Family Studies, v.7, n.2, 2001, pp.160-70. The impact of parental divorce on filial obligation to care for parents as they age was studied by asking Australian undergraduate...
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From:Family MattersAs part of the broad policy shift towards encouraging post-separation co-parenting, there remains keen interest in ascertaining the nature, amount, and quality of contact that non-resident parents have with their...
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From:Policy & Practice (Vol. 62, Issue 1)African-American parents now have an important new resource to help them support their children during times of stress or crisis. The Activity Book for African American Families: Helping Children Cope with Crisis was...
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From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 46, Issue 2)on a beach as old as the stars i found two pebbles. rounded, worn, smooth--side by side, eternity engraved upon their countenance. battered yet unbeaten--strong, and open to the sky no sharpened edge for a child's...
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From:Child Protection Law Report (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHoward v. Child Welfare Agency Review Board, No. CV 1999-9881 Circuit Court of Pulaski County December 29, 2004 An Arkansas state court judge has struck down a 1999 regulation that prohibited homosexuals from...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedUntil the 1950's, it was widely assumed that homosexuality was a pathological condition. Even after leading social science organizations rejected that assumption in the early 1970's, many believed that LGBTQ parents...
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From:Family MattersProposals last year to change the Child Support Scheme focused on two important issues: the financial costs of parent-child contact for nonresident parents, and the relationship between contact and the payment of child...
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From:Florida Bar Journal (Vol. 72, Issue 4)The precipitous rise of health care costs in recent years has made access to reasonable health insurance much more crucial in family law cases. Just as important is the issue of apportioning the costs of health care for...
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From:Child Protection Law Report (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFINALIZING ADOPTIONS IN MAINE. State legislators, led by Rep. Darlene Curley (R) are considering a bill (LD 1754) to speed up background checks for adoptive parents, easing the stress on families and quickening the...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 54, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTwenty-five years after their divorce my father and mother live together-- just a stone's throw away, literally. One happy neighborhood--quiet, at last. No fighting this time around. If death were sleep their dreams...
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From:Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhat should family law do about divorcing parents? "Teach them a lesson," a legislative wave sweeping through the United States has answered. (1) As a result of the legislation, growing numbers of divorcing parents are...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSave the dreams for therapy, the therapist said. But this dream has a train. That's new. And outside the window: a boy and a man in medium coats, the boy's hood peaked like a dumpling--something thrown off. They are...
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From:Journal of Aging StudiesPeer-ReviewedThe purpose of this study was to explore attitudes regarding the obligations of family members to help elderly parents and stepparents. Two hundred and ninety-one adults responded to vignettes portraying possible...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMaureen Boyle is an economist in the Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of American families headed by single parents has increased dramatically in the last three...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 319, Issue 7221) Peer-ReviewedThe increasing proportion of aged in society affects the status of children. The current trends suggest there will continue to be fewer children born, fewer who die, and parents who are older when they have their...
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From:McGill Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlthough they usually correspond, juridical logic does not always coincide with factual reality. In some cases, the law even contradicts reality. Filiation offers a clear example of this divergence: the legal notion of...
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From:The Journal of Socio-Economics (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
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From:Journal of Medical Ethics (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWho is a parent? Many societies and legal systems have to grapple with the reality that families are increasingly complex entities. In March 2002 a Scottish sheriff sought to define the basic principles behind the...
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From:Journal of Consumer Affairs (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDo altruism and bequest incentives motivate adult children to care for disabled parents? Using an economic framework, this study examines these caregiving incentives. Data from the 1992 Health and Retirement Study...
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From:American Journal of Family Law (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"As lawyers, we cannot change what has happened to our clients in the past, but we can positively affect what will happen to our clients during the legal process and in the future." (1) This statement states a...