Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
ISSN
0009-3599
Publisher
Chicago Kent College of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
I begin this Article with the preceding two statements concerning care for children because they focus on the relationship between resources and responsibility and capture two conflicting approaches to that relationship. The first statement resists a definition of "responsibility" that leaves out the work of social reproduction, that is, of caring for children and preparing them to take their place as responsible, self-governing members of society. Highlighting the lack of resources that poor parents face when tackling the work of social reproduction, the statement also suggests common ground among parents across class lines as to the importance of caring for children and it quests for public policy that both incorporates recognition of public responsibility for the health of families and measures "success" at least in part based on meeting that responsibility.
Recommended Citation
Linda C. McClain,
Care as a Public Value: Linking Responsibility, Resources, and Republicanism
,
in
76
Chicago-Kent Law Review
1673
(2001).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2881
