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Navigating Benefits for Leave from Employment in Massachusetts: Spotlight for new and expecting parents
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How to Confirm Legal Parenthood of a Non-Birthing Parent
Every day, children are born to married people and unmarried people, to heterosexual couples and same-sex couples, to people who are not (or no longer) in a relationship, and to biological parents who are married to a non-biological parent. Much of American family law treats married, heterosexual couples as the norm.
When a family structure doesn’t fit into that historical framework, the non-birthing parent has to navigate a specific legal process to be named on the child’s birth certificate and have rights as the child’s lawful parent. Establishing parentage can benefit a child by helping to ensure that both parents support the child financially.
Care teams can educate families about parentage processes to support them in making informed decisions about their rights, with help from this tool, available in English and Spanish.
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CA - Parentage - VietnameseGenerated by the 2021-22 Building Legal-Problem-Solving Capacity in the Early Childhood Sector Learning Community
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Legal-Problem-Solving-and-Flourishing-Interactive-Single-PageHow to Confirm Legal Parenthood of a Non-Birthing Parent
Every day, children are born to married people and unmarried people, to heterosexual couples and same-sex couples, to people who are not (or no longer) in a relationship, and to biological parents who are married to a non-biological parent. Much of American family law treats married, heterosexual couples as the norm.
When a family structure doesn’t fit into that historical framework, the non-birthing parent has to navigate a specific legal process to be named on the child’s birth certificate and have rights as the child’s lawful parent. Establishing parentage can benefit a child by helping to ensure that both parents support the child financially.
Care teams can educate families about parentage processes to support them in making informed decisions about their rights, with help from this tool, available in English and Spanish.
English
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RI - Parentage - Cape Verdean CreoleHow to Confirm Legal Parenthood of a Non-Birthing Parent
Every day, children are born to married people and unmarried people, to heterosexual couples and same-sex couples, to people who are not (or no longer) in a relationship, and to biological parents who are married to a non-biological parent. Much of American family law treats married, heterosexual couples as the norm.
When a family structure doesn’t fit into that historical framework, the non-birthing parent has to navigate a specific legal process to be named on the child’s birth certificate and have rights as the child’s lawful parent. Establishing parentage can benefit a child by helping to ensure that both parents support the child financially.
Care teams can educate families about parentage processes to support them in making informed decisions about their rights, with help from this tool, available in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole.
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An MLPB Interview Series with Early Childhood System-Builders
Compiled May 24, 2022 as part of the 18-month MLPB-convened Building Legal Problem-Solving Capacity in the Early Childhood Sector planning process. Thank you to our planning process partner communities for contributing to this interview series (see below) and to The JPB Foundation for making the planning process possible.
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This month a new DULCE paper was published in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Entitled Cross-Sector Approach Expands Screening and Addresses Health-Related Social Needs in Primary Care, the paper presents data collected at 5 DULCE sites that shows:
- an increase in family engagement with well-child visits; and
- reliable detection of, and responses to, health-related social needs disclosed by families.
Read the paper lead-authored by MaryCatherine Arbour here, as well as a companion blog post published by the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
