The Case of Jamaican Child Support Payments

Student Name Professor Name Course Date Reading Summary As an island economy, Jamaica has been facing various challenges and is being given tough times in a global free trade environment. One crucial problem is size, and the other challenge is child support. According to Brenda Wyss, Jamaica won’t enjoy the various advantages of size available to countries like Canada and the United States. On the other hand, children on this island will hardly get support, and their parents and the government itself will ignore most of their rights. In Culture and Gender in Household Economies: The Case of Jamaican Child Support Payments, Brenda Wyss shares three different approaches regarding children support. According to the Neoclassical Economic Approach and Child Support Behavior, children should be given proper financial freedom, just like their parents or elders, so that they can become responsible citizens of tomorrow. In...