Gregg Strauss (University of Virginia) has posted to SSRN his paper What Role Remains for De Facto Parenthood?, in Florida State University Law Review. Here is the abstract:
Imagine you and your two-year old child move in with your parents, and you rely on them to care for her while...
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. (46.6 million) experiences mental illness in a given year.
Approximately 1 in 25 adults in the U.S. (11.2 million) experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or limits...
As lawmakers in Alabama passed a bill that would outlaw abortion in the U.S. state entirely (see prior post), protesters outside the statehouse wore blood-red robes, a nod to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, in which childbearing is entirely controlled by the state. Hours later, the book was trending on Twitter.
If a fetus is a person, it should get child support, due process and citizenship.
The logic of Alabama’s abortion law should permit you to claim a fetus on your taxes and collect insurance if you miscarry.
Alabama has joined the growing number of states (see for...