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FATHERHOOD, FAMILY LAW, AND THE CRISIS OF BOYS AND MEN.
June Carbone1, Clare Huntington2
1University of Minnesota Law School.
Columbia Law Review
|February 5, 2025
Summary
Boys and men, particularly those without college degrees, face significant struggles in education, employment, and health. Current family law and economic policies exacerbate this crisis, isolating fathers and harming families. Reforms are proposed to support active fatherhood and cooperative parenting.
Area of Science:
- Sociology
- Family Law
- Economics
Background:
- Boys and men across diverse groups are experiencing declines in education, employment, health, and social integration.
- Economic shifts and policy choices have negatively impacted men without college degrees, leading to widespread well-being issues.
- These challenges extend to family structures, affecting relationship stability, father involvement, and child well-being.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the multifaceted crisis affecting boys and men, particularly those without higher education.
- To examine the role of economic changes and policy decisions in exacerbating male disadvantage.
- To investigate how family law and child support systems contribute to the familial isolation of vulnerable men and propose reforms.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of large-scale structural economic changes affecting male employment.
- Review of policy choices, including incarceration rates and economic inequality.
- Examination of family law transformations, custody rules, child support systems, and child welfare regulations.
- Proposal of reforms to custody, child support, and family regulation systems.
Main Results:
- Men without college degrees are disproportionately affected by economic precarity and policy failures.
- Existing family law, while aiming for postdivorce cooperative parenting, often excludes economically disadvantaged fathers.
- Child support orders can be unrealistic for low-income fathers, and child welfare systems may mischaracterize fathers as incompetent or threatening.
Conclusions:
- The decline in male well-being is a significant societal problem with profound family implications.
- Family law and economic policies must be reformed to support, rather than alienate, fathers.
- Proposed reforms aim to enhance paternal involvement through greater family autonomy, workable support systems, and opportunities for active fatherhood.
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