"The show follows The Derricos as they raise their 14 kids -- the oldest, Darian is 18 so she's not mentioned in the divorce filing -- focusing on their childrearing in North Las Vegas."
— 'DOUBLING DOWN WITH THE DERRICOS': KAREN AND DEON DERRICO DIVORCE ... Joint Legal, Physical Custody of 13 Minor Kids. TMZ, June 14, 2024.
To learn more about child support in Nevada, here's an quick calculator.
Mike Masnick, TechDirt, January 8, 2024 ("Leading ‘Save The Kids!’ Advocate Pushing Absolutely Dangerous ‘Protect The California’ Ballot Initiative That Will Do Real Harm To Children"):
"And now we’ve got Jim Steyer, who has more money and ignorance than sense, trying to quietly push a California ballot initiative that would adjust the California constitution in an unconstitutional (by the US Constitution) manner to falsely claim that social media is deliberately harmful to kids, and that people should be able to sue social media for a million dollars any time any kid anywhere is 'harmed' in a manner on social media that the social media company should have magically stopped."
Kind of like the opposite of Substack's claim that they cannot magically stop Nazis but only contain them which allegedly will somehow discourage them.
If you're in California, you can work out with your co-parent whether your kid uses social media.
See also the proposed Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) at the federal level.
When you're divorcing or separating in Saskatchewan, why is it so important to put your values about affirming your child's gender in your Saskatchewan parenting plan?
"Education Minister Dustin Duncan announced earlier in the day that going forward, schools must now seek the permission of parents or guardians before allowing students under the age of 16 to change what the province refers to as their 'preferred' name and pronouns. ... [Lisa] Broda [Saskatchewan Advocate for Children and Youth] said her office found out about the policy, titled Use of Preferred First Name and Pronouns by Students [PDF], through the media and had not been advised of the changes."
— Youth advocate reviewing Sask. policy requiring schools to get parental permission for pronoun changes: Province also banning outside groups from giving sex-ed presentations in schools. Alexander Quon, CBC News, Aug 22, 2023
According to Adam Goldenberg, a partner with McCarthy Tรฉtrault and legal counsel for UR Pride, which has asked to block the new policy, the policy can't be enforced yet. A CBC article on September 29 quoted Goldenberg as saying that "gender-diverse young people in Saskatchewan" can currently ask a "trusted adult" to "refer to them by their chosen name, their chosen pronouns, even if they haven't come out to their parents so don't have parental consent."
[Justice Michael Megaw wrote:] "There is no indication...that the [Education] Ministry discussed this new Policy with any potential interested parties such as teachers, parents, or student" [and] "no indication any expert assistance was enlisted to assist in determining the effect of the Policy. Finally, there is no indication the Ministry sought any legal assistance to determine the constitutionality of the Policy with respect to any potential considerations regarding the Charter." [Meanwhile] "Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is reiterating his claim that his government's school pronoun policy was based on extensive consultations with parents, teachers and others..." However, when asked for evidence, Moe said only: "That evidence would ultimately be forthcoming, I would presume. ... I'll leave what happens in the courtroom to the lawyers."
Sask premier says school pronoun policy based on wide consultation, but judge says there's no evidence of that: Premier Scott Moe says he'll recall legislature Oct. 10 to invoke notwithstanding clause. Jason Warick, CBC News, Sep 29, 2023
Meghan McKie wrote about this on Medium: "Saskatchewan's New Series 'Transphobia': A Show About Nothing!" (paywalled; be a Medium member, please)
Lisa Sugiura's book The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women (2021) is open access.
To start with, Sugiura considers movements like Fathers for Justice (FFJ), whose
"primary focus...is actual men's problems rather than espousing vitriol against women, progressiveness and feminism. FFJ is concerned with paternal rights and ensuring that fathers have access to their children when relationships break down, when Criminal Justice Systems entrenched in sexist, conservative ideals ordinarily operate in favour of the mother. In this respect, the continuation of traditional gender roles, the desire and ideal of other groups in the manosphere, marginalises men and devalues their status as parents."
Some men feel disappointed because they were somehow — overtly, by individuals? implicitly, by systems? — led to believe they'd be more powerful and successful than they are.
"Pleck (1974, 1995) attempted to navigate this complexity by asserting that though they hold institutional power in patriarchal societies, most men do not actually feel powerful, creating a further conundrum for men to reconcile with – why do they not feel powerful when they are supposed to?"
An early idea of a "male mystique" and recognition that some men want custody of their kids:
"Marc Feigan Fasteau’s The Male Machine discussed the emotional impacts of restrictive masculinity, borrowing from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. Feigan Fasteau (1974, p. xiv) wrote that men's 'denial of dependency ... and emotions leads to silence and the creation of a male mystique'. Feigan Fasteau is also famous for his egalitarian marriage with Brenda Feigan Fasteau, a feminist lawyer who co-founded the Women’s Action Alliance with Gloria Steinem, and with whom he set up a law partnership, representing gender cases such as fathers who sought custody in divorce cases."
Later, especially "pre-web in the 1980s or as part of Web 1.0 from the 1990s to 2000s," men's rights organizations focused on political issues like whether family law (child custody, visitation, and child support) favored "women's interests" and whether that was a legislative attack that was part of "feminism's perceived attack on fatherhood" (Gotell & Dutton, 2016; Kimmel, 2017; Maddison, 1999).
"The previous ‘feminist hero’, Warren Farrell, had taken umbrage against NOW's stance in divorce cases, in declaring their support of providing child custody to the main caregiver, who was usually the mother, and having been through a divorce himself, came to the conclusion that feminists were more interested in power than in equality, a view that was being echoed by many more men. The disillusionment with feminism continued to escalate with the growth of women entering the workforce."
Child custody — for parents who were never married, or for those divorcing with kids — is unique in every state. Child custody in South Carolina too has its own laws.
An interesting thing I just learned is that "South Carolina is the only state without a woman on its supreme court" (Candice Norwood, The 19th, March 1, 2023).
On May 25, 2023, Governor Henry McMaster signed a ban on abortion after six weeks of gestation, and it took effect immediately. However, the next day, a court blocked it indefinitely.
SC United for Justice & Equality advocates for legislation to protect "the lived and legal equality of LGBTQ+ people" in South Carolina. See also: "Reduced trans health care access cause for concern," Chelsea Grinstead, Charleston City Paper, February 1, 2023
Also important:
"Briggs v. Elliott is a South Carolina case named after Harry Briggs, one of 20 parents who brought a lawsuit against Clarendon County School Board President R.W. Elliott." This case, along with several others, led to "the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregation of public schools across the country." — HuffPost, May 28, 2023
A play set in South Carolina in 1964:
Quote:
“Enslaved African women were the chief herbalists in the antebellum American South. Plant medicine formed the basis of rural health care for both Black and white households, and Black herbalists treated community members across racial lines. Enslaved people had intimate knowledge of the pharmacological and spiritual powers of the local plants and animals, much of which was taught to them by Native Americans or learned through experimentation. Enslaved doctors gathered and prepared flag root, jimsonweed, garlic, calamus root, arrowroot, dogwood, snakeroot, pokeweed, peach leaves, sassafras, privet root, mayflower root, and cotton root, among others. For example, Caesar (b. 1682) was an accomplished Black herbalist who developed a cure for enslavers who believed they were poisoned, using plantain and horehound as the active ingredients. In a rare act, the South Carolina General Assembly of 1750 awarded Caesar his freedom and an annual stipend in exchange for his recipe and a commitment to continue developing medicine. They published his cure-all poison remedy in the May 1750 issue of the South Carolina Gazette. For Black herbalists, the forest was experienced as a liberator space, one where they could gather medicines and edible wild plants, meet up with lovers, and engage in spiritual practices. It was said that these herbalists could read the forest like a book by old age. The forest was a place where, in the words of the historian Sharla Feet, ‘spiritual power intensified and the social power of slavery waned.’”
— Leah Penniman. Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations With Black Environmentalists. Amistad, 2023. Chapter: “These Roots Run Deep.”
The Supreme Court ruled today, upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act.
"The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a federal law, intended to rectify past government abuses, that gives preference to the foster care and adoption of Native American children by their relatives and tribes.
In a 7-2 decision, the court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which was passed to remedy what Congress said was a disgraceful history in which hundreds of thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes by adoption agencies and placed with White families or in group settings."
The ICWA doesn't address custody disputes between parents, and today's ruling doesn't address that topic.
"The court’s ruling Thursday did not resolve the broader question of whether the child-welfare law violates equal protection guarantees by placing non-Indian families on unequal footing with Indian families in custody disputes."
— "Native adoptions can give priority to tribal families, Supreme Court rules," (subscriber gift link), Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes, Washington Post, June 15, 2023.
Regarding divorce with children, or child custody between unmarried parents: For more information on child custody law in your U.S. state, see Custody X Change.
By the end of 2022, Alabama had received over $450 million from American Rescue Plan Stabilization Support. The American Rescue Plan is a covid-era economic stimulus package signed by President Biden in early 2021. The money was allocated to over 1,500 child care programs in all but one of the state's 67 counties. The child care centers mostly used the funds to pay their staff, allowing the child care centers to remain open, which in turn allowed parents to return to work. About 90,000 children may have been affected by this funding. (Source: PDF)
Some people say more needs to be done:
“Childcare experts suggest expanded subsidies, tax credits, as Alabama parents cite struggles.
— Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (@pn3policy) March 15, 2023
Cynthia Osborne…of PN3 Policy Impact Center, said Alabama’s child care crisis can also cause the state economic harm.” @aldotcom https://t.co/2nffn2RAIU
Study 3: Alabama Family Child Care Providers’ Decision-Making Related to Serving Children During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
— Akiesha Anderson (@AkieshaAnderson) March 10, 2023
Summary of findings: pic.twitter.com/bIYSXxrhN1
Learn also about the child custody process and divorce involving children in Alabama.
Nutrition and literacy:
"Last year the state allocated $1.3 billion to build two new 4,000-bed mega prisons, which included $400 million of COVID-relief funds from the federal government.
Now Ivey wants to spend $100 million for prisons that Alabamians were told they'd already paid for.
Out of money meant for schools."
— Kyle Whitmire, "Alabama governor wants $100 million of school funds for prison construction." AL.com. March 28, 2023.
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— Donnanique Washington (@DonnaniqueW) March 11, 2023
Vision + Skills + Incentive + Resources + Action = CHANGE
— ARI / The Alabama Reading Initiative (@Alabama_Reading) March 17, 2023
The ARI and ALSDE partners are dedicated to CHANGING lives through literacy. #scienceofreading #literacyforall
Every child. Every chance. Every day.@AlabamaAchieves @ALSDEOSI @mjshields @TeachwithALEX @AlabamaMTSS pic.twitter.com/VwSKD4ePbg
Alabama Lawmakers Advance Bill That Could Lead To Prosecution Of Librarians: The legislation comes amid a soaring number of book challenges — often centered on LGBTQ content — and efforts in a number of states to ban drag queen story readings. Kim Chandler, AP, Apr 25, 2024
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