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The Failure of Child Support: Gendered Systems of Inaccessibility, Inaction and Irresponsibility - Hardcover

Cook, Kay

 
9781447348863: The Failure of Child Support: Gendered Systems of Inaccessibility, Inaction and Irresponsibility
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1447348869 ISBN 13: 9781447348863
Publisher: Policy Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Policy Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1447348869
ISBN 13 
9781447348863
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
190