The Failure of Child Support

Gendered Systems of Inaccessibility, Inaction and Irresponsibility
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4886-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Kay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Child support and gendered governance practice

3. Child support regimes and relevance

4. Sites of child support failure

5. Divergent views of success and failure

6. The interests served by failure

7. Rendering gendered social problems technical

8. The gendered offer of personal solutions

9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Cook, Kay
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.

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