“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan

• Published in: Law & social inquiry Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 2213 - 2244
• Main Author: Chua, Lynette J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.11.2024
• Subjects: Children; Children & youth; Disputes; Families & family life; Family relations; Fathers; Feminism; Feminist theory; Financial support; Law; Legal reform; Litigation; Older people; Openness; Optimism; Parents & parenting; Power; Social welfare; Social workers; Society; Vulnerability; Taiwan

This article is a story about tetherings, a concept that illuminates the power of law in the relational dynamics of individual-family-state. The concept emerges from my qualitative study of parental maintenance litigation in Taiwan over the provision of financial support to troublous parents, who mi...