platypus
2008-04-26 12:34:52
Doesn’t federal law treat all females who give birth as head-of-household? Assuming I’m correct on that point, I am certain that the feds then require state law to be aligned as a consequence of IV-D grant programs.
That would mean that the fact that the mothers were under 16 does not mean they were minors. Remember, it is legal for underage mothers to get an abortion without parental notification. Getting pregnant is an emancipating act.
So I say that under eighteen means little in the legal sense. If they are mothers, they are emancipated (for the most part),
