Post-Divorce Parental Norms in the Age of Fake News and Discursive Violence: The Israeli Case in a Comparative Context

Toward the end of the second millennium, many countries implemented dramatic changes within their child custody and support laws that (a) left behind presumptions that prefer mothers as the physical custodian, and (b) weakened fathers’ economic responsibility for their children. These changes were allegedly based on new norms of gender equality within the family and the market. However, both the family and the market are still deeply gendered social institutions. Hence, as several feminist critics have observed, such legal reforms within child custody and support are problematic insofar as they do not acknowledge how parental care is actually provided and as a consequence harm children and their primary care-givers....