Children and Family Policy and the Law

What is a “Family”? Conflicting Messages from Our Public Programs, 42 Family Law Quarterly 231 (2008)

Framing Public-Policy Interventions on Behalf of Children as Parent-Empowering, a chapter in Raising Children (edited by Jill Berrick and Neil Gilbert, Oxford University Press 2008).

Who Counts as an American Family, from Family and the Law in the 21st Century 943-63 (2007)

Single Parent Families Chapter 2, from All Our Families (Mason, Sugarman and Skolnick eds., Oxford University Press, Second Edition 2003)

Spousal Emotional Dispute as a Tort? (with Ira Ellman), 55 Maryland Law Review 1268 (1996)

Welfare Reform and the Coooperative Federalism of America’s Public Income Transfer Programs, 14 Yale L & Policy Review 123 (1996)

Welfare Reform Meets Ideological Impasse, 7 Hastings Women’s Law Journal 363 (1996)

Financial Support of Children and the End of Welfare as we Know It, 81 Virginia Law Review 2523 (1995)

Family Law for the Next Century 27 Family L. Q. 178 (1993-94)

Deciding What’s Best For Children (with John E. Coons and Robert Mnookin), 7 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 465 (1993)

Puzzling over Children’s Rights (with John E. Coons and Robert Mnookin), 1991 BYU Law Review 307

Dividing Financial Interests on Divorce, Chapter 5 from “Divorce Reform at the Crossroads” (Sugarman and Kay, eds. Yale University Press 1990)

Children’s Benefits in Social Security, 65 Cornell Law Review 836 (1979)