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.

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Information

Publisher

Policy Press

Year

2022

ISBN

9781447348887

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Social Policy

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
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
References
Index