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    CalWORKs is a program that provides cash assistance to low income California families with children with the goal of getting parents working to achieve self-sufficiency. However, a rule called the "Maximum Family Grant" prevents a family on CalWORKs from receiving additional aid for a new child, unless the mother can show that certain forms of birth control failed to prevent the pregnancy, or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. This policy inserts the state into private family decisions, punishes women who have more children while poor, and further harms children born into families already living in poverty. Come learn about how a coalition of advocates, including current and former Berkeley law students, is fighting to repeal this misguided policy.

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    CalWORKs is a program that provides cash assistance to low income California families with children with the goal of getting parents working to achieve self-sufficiency. However, a rule called the "Maximum Family Grant" prevents a family on CalWORKs from receiving additional aid for a new child, unless the mother can show that certain forms of birth control failed to prevent the pregnancy, or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. This policy inserts the state into private family decisions, punishes women who have more children while poor, and further harms children born into families already living in poverty. Come learn about how a coalition of advocates, including current and former Berkeley law students, is fighting to repeal this misguided policy.

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    Maximum Family Grant Rule: Invading Privacy, Punishing Moms & Harming Kids

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    CalWORKs is a program that provides cash assistance to low income California families with children with the goal of getting parents working to achieve self-sufficiency. However, a rule called the "Maximum Family Grant" prevents a family on CalWORKs from receiving additional aid for a new child, unless the mother can show that certain forms of birth control failed to prevent the pregnancy, or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. This policy inserts the state into private family decisions, punishes women who have more children while poor, and further harms children born into families already living in poverty. Come learn about how a coalition of advocates, including current and former Berkeley law students, is fighting to repeal this misguided policy.

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    Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice Thelton E.

    Henderson Center for Social Justice East Bay Community Law Center Law Students for Reproductive Justice Berkeley Chapter Boalt Hall Womens Association The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice present

    the Maximum Family Grant Rule

    INVADING PRIVACY, PUNISHING MOMS AND HARMING KIDS


    Should the State dictate what forms of birth control a woman uses? Should the State punish a child based on the date of the childs birth?

    What does reproductive justice mean for poor women?

    How does the MFG rule impact individual families?

    What are law students doing to repeal the MFG rule?

    What can you do to stop the MFG rule?

    CalWORKs is a program that provides cash assistance to low income California families with children with the goal of getting parents working to achieve self-sufficiency. However, a rule called the "Maximum Family Grant" prevents a family on CalWORKs from receiving additional aid for a new child, unless the mother can show that certain forms of birth control failed to prevent the pregnancy, or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. This policy inserts the state into private family decisions, punishes women who have more children while poor, and further harms children born into families already living in poverty. Come learn about how a coalition of advocates, including current and former Berkeley law students, is fighting to repeal this misguided policy.

    Thursday, April 18th, 2013


    4:00 pm 5:30 pm UC Berkeley School of Law Room 134
    This event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Please call Luan Huynh at (510) 269-6671 with questions. To RSVP for the event click here.

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