Families: Rights, Laws, and StabilityAs populations in many developed countries begin to dwindle or become heavily unbalanced toward the aged, the support families, their structures and societal encouragement become vital issues. This book examines some of the perplexing and complex issues involved in this battle for survival focusing on rights, laws and stability of the family. |
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Contents
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FEDERAL INCOME TAX TREATMENT OF THE FAMILY | 29 |
FATHERHOOD INITIATIVES CONNECTING FATHERS TO THEIR CHILDREN | 53 |
INTERNATIONAL POPULATION ASSISTANCE AND FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS ISSUES FOR CONGRESS | 75 |
STATE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE LAWS | 95 |
EVEN START FAMILY LITERACY PROGRAMS AN OVERVIEW | 111 |
POTENTIAL EFFECT OF MARRIAGE ON SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME SSI ELIGIBILITY AND BENEFITS | 119 |
CHILD CUSTODY PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT AN OVERVIEW | 129 |
Index | 137 |
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Page 26 - No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.
Page 3 - Court make clear that freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Page 18 - Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US 390 (1923); Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 US 510 (1925); to marital privacy, Griswold v.
Page 2 - Union, the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife, parent and child, belongs to the laws of the State, and not to the laws of the United States.
Page 18 - In a long line of cases, we have held that, in addition to the specific freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights, the "liberty" specially protected by the Due Process Clause includes the rights to marry, Loving v.
Page 15 - May 26, 1790, c. 11, 1 Stat, 122. Congress has not exercised its power under the Full Faith and Credit Clause to meet the special problems raised by divorce decrees. There will be time enough to consider the scope of its power in this regard when Congress chooses to exercise it. The duty of a state to...
Page 121 - L, resources mean cash or other liquid assets or any real or personal property that an individual (or spouse, if any) owns and could convert to cash to be used for his support and maintenance.
Page 14 - Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, effective in at least seventeen states, provides that '[a]ll marriages contracted within this State prior to the effective date of the act, or outside this State, that were valid at the time of the contract or subsequently validated by the laws of the place in which they were contracted or by the domicile of the parties, are valid in this State.'16 The Act specifically drops the public policy exception: 'the section expressly fails to incorporate the 'strong public...
Page 65 - States in operating a program designed to — (1) provide assistance to needy families so that children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of relatives; (2) end the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage...