The Failure of Child Support

Gendered Systems of Inaccessibility, Inaction and Irresponsibility

The Failure of Child Support
Kay Cook
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 184pg
11 Apr 2022 UK
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9781447348863
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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, re-situating 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.
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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ISBN-13: 9781447348863
Published: 11 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Policy Press
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 184

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