Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Abstract
In this Article, I argue that poor parents who are willing, but economically unable, to provide proper care for their children are entitled to some minimum level of state assistance grounded in the constitutional right to family integrity. The right to family integrity, when coupled with the state's power as parens patride, creates an affirmative obligation on the state to provide income assistance to impoverished families when necessary to protect the welfare of the children and maintain the family intact.
Publication Citation
57 Ohio St. L.J. 519 (1996)
Recommended Citation
Kindred, Kay P., "God Bless the Child: Poor Children, Parens Patriae, and a State Obligation to Provide Assistance" (1996). Scholarly Works. 52.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/52