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Article
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Private Tragedies? Family Law as Social Insurance, 4 Harvard Law & Policy Review 3 (2010)
Abstract
Family law is full of private tragedy. Case after case pits one family member against another in a zero-sum struggle for resources. Spouses battle over limited assets; parents clash over child support; and children fight each other for resources when parental income is stretched across multiple families. Bad choices and bad luck, it seems, precipitate calamity; and there is little that the law can do when families self-destruct amidst unemployment, poverty, mental illness, disability, substance abuse, domestic violence, child neglect, and other problems.
Date of Authorship for this Version
2010
Recommended Citation
Private Tragedies? Family Law as Social Insurance, 4 Harvard Law & Policy Review 3 (2010)