Failure of Child Support (eBook)

Gendered Systems of Inaccessibility, Inaction and Irresponsibility

Kay Cook (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 1., First Edition
190 Seiten
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-4888-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on interviews with informants from a diverse range of 16 countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Peru, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Nigeria, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It lays out how these systems are structured in ways that render them ineffective, while positioning women as responsible for their failures.The book charts the demise of child support as a feminist intervention, resituating it as gendered governance practice that operates by making the system inaccessible, failing to deliver outcomes, and condoning fathers irresponsibility. It identifies how the gender order is entrenched through child support failure and offers possibilities for feminist reform.

Autor

Kay Cook is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean Research in the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education at Swinburne University of Technology.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.4.2022
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: child maintenance • Child Support • Family Law • Gender • Governance • post-seperation • Single Mothers
• ISBN-10: 1-4473-4888-5 / 1447348885
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-4888-7 / 9781447348887