Why Terminate Parental Rights?

Why Workers’ Rights Are Not Women’s Rights

“Why workers’ rights are not women’s rights” is an argument whose purpose is to make clear why workers’ rights rest on a masculine embodiment of the labor subject and it is this masculine embodiment which is at the center of employment contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor, the paper reveals the opposition ...

Coping with parental loss because of termination of parental rights.

This article addresses the process by which children and adolescents cope with severe acute stress of parental loss from causes other than divorce or death. Participants were 60 children and adolescents from a residential treatment facility. Most had experienced neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse, and their parents had their parential rights terminated. Measures of symptomatology indicat...

Children’s Associational Rights? Why Less Is More

Why don’t married men take parental leave?

Despite its availability, only a few married men use parental leave in Canada while almost all eligible married women take parental leave. As possible explanations, I consider gender differences in rental rates of human capital, wage growth processes, wage penalties for time off from work, preferences for leisure, and relative productivity in home production. I briefly document empirical backgr...

Who‘s Got Parental Rights? The Intersection Between Infertility, Reproductive Technologies, and Disability Rights Law

It is estimated that ten to twenty percent of couples in the developed world experience infertility.1 Factors such as late childbearing increase the rates of infertility, particularly when race and economic disadvantages are considered.2 Additionally, infertility and the experience of infertility often result in significant emotional and psychological costs to those involved.3 It is thus not su...