Explain how a follower of Kantian ethics might approach issues surrounding the right to a child. [25]…
The old "taxation without representation" argument said it all. Colonists were tired of having things like taxes passed onto them in Parliament all the way out in England without any representation. It was as if they were being treated like second class citizens who had no say in their own rights within the colonies. But instead of listening to its citizens, England decided to clamp down even further on the colonies, sparking even more grievances. The war was the result of the political American Revolution. Colonists galvanized around the position that the Stamp Act of 1765, imposed by Parliament of Great Britain, was unconstitutional. The British Parliament insisted it had the right to tax colonists. The colonists claimed that, as they were…
Present child custody and support laws do not make any sense. They often penalize hard working parents and alienate parents from children they love. These laws must be re-examined and revised so that the best interest of children be served at all times.…
The Washington State Legislature passed the bill “the Parenting Sentencing Alternative substitute senate bill 6639” in 2010 The legislation has created two programs to help parents of minor children get intensive supervision as alternatives to incarceration: Family and Offender sentencing Alternative (FOSA) and Community Parenting Alternative (CPA). “The State saw a need to address the issue of the increasing number of minor children being raised without their parents. “ The Community Parenting Alternative is the department of Corrections Avenue for a parent who is within the correctional system could be placed with in this alternative program. This programs protocol is to transfer an offender to home detention using electronic monitoring for up to the last year of their prison sentence. Susan Leavell explained that "the inmates that are coming out are still inmates, but in their home. Electronic monitoring is a way to ensure that they are where they say they are and that they don't leave the home without permission." The current sentence is waived and 12 month community custody is imposed with intensive supervision model and weekly visits with the offender.…
Single parents are becoming the norm these days and the government has stepped in to assist these custodial parents to make things fair. It takes two people to make a child so it seems only fair that two people support the child financially, right? I am a single mother. My daughter’s father, Donnie, and I were never married and weren’t together at the time of her birth. He wasn’t around to sign the birth certificate so I had to go through DFS to fill paperwork out to get support payments from him after our daughter (Nathalia) was born. When I filled out the CSE (Child Support Enforcement) paperwork the case was being handled by a caseworker in Jefferson City, MO. I gave the caseworker Donnie’s address about four months after our daughter’s birth. Nothing was done and I assumed they were having trouble getting hold of him. When Nathalia was five years old my case was moved to a caseworker in Columbia who called and got the information from me again and I received paternity paperwork within the month. The way it works is the noncustodial parent only has to pay from the time the paperwork showing paternity was sent. I had tried to contact Nathalia’s father to start visitation. He came around for one hour a week for about two months then just stopped. He paid the arrearage for support payments after facing criminal charges for non-payment of support payments, and being threatened with a year in jail if the support was not paid. I feel no sympathy. Now he is back to not making the payments. On the other hand I have a friend (Jessica, fictional name) who has a five year old daughter (Hannah, fictional name) whose father has been in and out of jail for child support non-payment. He has a relationship with Hannah and has care of her fifty percent of the time. The government wants to put him back in jail for arrearage on Hannah and two of his other…
I can understand why people feel that the custodial parent should receive the full child support payment. The state system was designed those who are in need of assistance. If a parent was/is receiving benefits and start to receive child support, the state should recoup their money. If people would like to continue to have a program the offers assistance, measures such as these (repaying the state through child support) must remain in…
If your county lets you mail in your petition, please mail these things to the Family Court: (The address is below.)…
Historically, women were seen as more favorable in the courts when awarded custody and child support and while it wasn’t always the case, as different cases have different variables. It was often seen that the mother could provide for their…
A dead beat dad should be penalized for not taking care of their child by providing financial support. Dead beat dads should serve jail time; attend an educational program, and show these men the circumstances that they have forced their child and mother to live in. In most homes children are born out of wedlock. Even though a child is born out of wedlock, it is still both parents responsibility to contribute to the child needs. Unfortunately, its easier said than done because this is not happening much in today’s world. A deadbeat dad isn’t just someone who doesn’t pay child support. A deadbeat dad is also a man that is mostly never around his kids, break promises that he makes to his kids, and doesn’t help contribute to his kids house hold by taking care of home finically. The term “deadbeat dad” came from child support agencies that used the term to identify men who had fathered a child and choose not to pay child support ordered by a family court of law. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, "Children who have fathers in their lives learn better, have higher self-esteem and show fewer signs of depression than children without fathers". Dead beat dads are a menace to our society.…
This world today has too many children growing up without mothers and fathers. Many of these parents are not deceased which makes one question where are these caregivers? These guardians are in a place, a place where no one individual wishes to be, called prison. The number of prison inmates is rising and with that comes a higher number of children to be raised without one parent for a certain amount of time. More than five million people inside the United States of America are under the supervision of the criminal justice system. Many of these individuals are in a state or federal prison. According to the research of Eddy and Reid (2002), “Of the 1,366,721 inmates held in state or Federal prison in 1999, over half (i.c 721,500) were parents. These parents had an estimated 1,498,800 children under the age of 18 years (Eddy and Reid, 2002 p.1). This number has risen dramatically since 1990; in 1990 the amount of children affected by the loss of a parent due to incarceration was nearing 500,000 children (Eddy and Reid, 2002 p.1). These children who were already subjected to crime by their parents are now five times more likely than the average child to…
The Paycheck Fairness Act needs to be put into position due to the fact that women do the same exact job as men and have a substantially smaller wage. Right now some of the US seems to be very ill-informed on the subject of the gender wage gap and that needs to be changed so something can be done to create a smaller number in between a man and woman's paycheck.…
What can the court do when a parenting time order is violated? When there’s a violation of a parenting time order, the parent should file a request for help with enforcement. Arizona state law requires the court to take action when violations occur. The court has access to a number of options when dealing with a violating parent. Some of these options include:…
Society and government seek both to protect children from abuse and to defend the rights of the family. Weighing those two goals and determining which is more important in a particular situation poses a serious challenge. Child welfare experts constantly struggle to balance the risk of causing psychological damage to children by removing them from their families with the risk of exposing them to physical harm by leaving them with abusive parents or guardians. This decision is especially difficult when the evidence of abuse is unclear.…
The United States foster care system is classified as a social injustice in the following ways:…
Another problem is the parents should be able to control when the kids should go out to make money, that way the child should depend on the parent financially which give the parent some kind of control. Without making some money my daughter would not have been able to buy drugs, as she did it while she was working and of course I had no right over her money, this is America. For me I did work until I graduated from nursing school, and because I completely depended on my parents for everything, moreover for me to get all I wanted depended on the report from my teachers, and other people around, who would not fail to notify my dad of any bad behavior which I already know the consequences. Even when I came to America it was still as if my dad…