Children & the Law Blog

The Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston recently brought together a group of leading scholars to explore the connections and the tensions between “feminist jurisprudence” and “child-centered jurisprudence.” Audio from the conference is now available and video podcast will follow shortly. Publications from these presentations will be published next year [...]

As reported by the Child Welfare League of America, a bill has been introduced to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. The law is the largest source of federal funding for the improvement of states’ juvenile systems. As summarized on the Building Blocks for Youth website, Congress placed four stipulations on [...]

In her article, Unborn v. Undocumented: A Collision of Policy and Politics, Patricia Gray highlights a likely unintended consequence of the expansion of SCHIP to unborn children: the expansion of SCHIP benefits for prenatal care to undocumented women. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal health benefits since they are unable to furnish social [...]