child support arrangements in the UK
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 1996
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Boden, Rebecca
- Creator
- Childs, Mary
- Thesaurus
- AKW, privé openbaar debat, kinderen, bijstand, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- This paper seeks to demonstrate the rationale for the establishment of closely defined and formulaic parental financial responsibilities relies essentially on the liberal rhetoric of the public-private divide, and that a consequence of this is that some women can be seriously disadvantaged. The authors first describe, and then provide a feminist critique of, liberal notions of the public and private in order to show that social policy justified or driven by such rhetoric may fundamentally antithetical to the interests of poorer women. The second part illustrates how current UK child support arrangements are rationalised using (but not necessarily motivated by) notions of an appropriate public-private divide, producing results which can disempower some women.