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... the courts cannot garnish a father’s salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. - June Jordan
Attribution: June Jordan (b. 1936), U.S. poet, essayist, and social critic. On Call, ch. 3 (1985). Written in 1981, on the refusal of American law courts to enforce child support orders and agreements, although they did enforce installment-payment contracts. Jordan’s own husband had left her and their eight-year-old child for another woman.

Categories: And Social Critic, Child Support, Divorce, Essayist

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