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Drawing on interviews with key international informants across 16 countries, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It identifies how the gender order is entrenched through child support failure and offers possibilities for feminist reform.

Table of Contents
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

The Failure of Child Support

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      Publisher: Bristol University Press
      Publication Date: 11/04/2022
      ISBN13: 9781447348863, 978-1447348863
      ISBN10: 1447348869
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      Child welfare and youth services Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on interviews with key international informants across 16 countries, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It identifies how the gender order is entrenched through child support failure and offers possibilities for feminist reform.

      Table of Contents
      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

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