Journal of Law and Family Studies Volume 05-06

Table of Contents: Between Private Ordering and Public Fiat: A New Paradigm for Family Law Decision Making; Defending Family Privacy; Parental Responsibility Laws/ Are they the Answers to Juvenile Delinquency; A Profile of Utah Consumer Bankruptcy Petitioners; United States of America v. Cabrera: People Trafficking -- Using Children to Cross Our Borders; United States v. Craft: Federal Tax Liens Against Property Owned as Tenants by the Entirety; Utah School Boards Association v. Utah State Board of Education: The Constitutionality of Utah Charter Schools; Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union: The Latest Attempt to Protect Children from Internet Pornography; Illinios v. Rodriguez (1990): A Parent's Authority Under Apparent Authority; The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Reform Foster Care; The Unguarded Gate: The Jurisdictional Gap within FDA "Device" Regulation; Married Persons Favored as Adoptive Parents: The Utah Perspective; Participation of Unwed Biological Fathers in Newborn Adoptions: Achieving Substantive and Procedural Fairness; In Defense of the Argument That Marriage Should Be a Rebuttable Presumption in Government Adoption Policy; Adoption, Best Interests and the Constitution: On Rational Basis Scrutiny and the Avoidance of Absurd Results; Promoting Adoption as a Solution to Teen Pregnancy: A Study and Model; Preferance for Marital Couple Adoption --- Constitutional and Policy Reflections; Case Note: Goodwin v. Turner and Gerber v. Hickman: Should Prisoners Have the Right to Procreate; Board of Education Pottawatomie County v. Earls: Broadening the Standard for Fourth Amendment Special Needs Drug Testing in Public Schools; Book Note: Fixing Columbine: The Challenge to American Liberalism; How to Sue the Government: An Open Courts Attack on Sovereign Immunity; Study: From Attribution and Thought - Process Theory to Rape-Shield Laws: The Meaning of Victim's Appearance in Rape Trials; Marital Status and Adoption Values; Adoption by Homosexuals in the Wake of Lawrence v. Texas; Adult Sexuality, The Best Interests of Children and Placement Liability of Foster-Care and Adoption Agencies; The Magnifying Effect: The Recursive Benefits of Marriage and Adoption Throughout the Adoptive Family Life-Cycle; Sleeping on the Couch: Government Booted from the Bedroom in Lawrence v. Texas; State v. Hardy: Reading Between the Lines: Why Love Letters May Amount to Veiled Threats When Sent by an Abusive Spouse; Zelman v. Simmons-Harris: The Constitutionality of School Choice Programs; In Re Lowther: Unusual Circumstances -- Dischargeability of Child Support Related Obligations in Bankruptcy; In Re T.M.: Who Protects the Indigent Parents; Age of Human Cloning and the Constitutional Crisis That May Result; Pushing the Limits with Statutes of Limitation: Helping Utah Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse After Stogner v. California; Utah's Stalking Statute: Overbroad and Ready for a Change; Hopeless or Happening: Preventing Youth Violence