Shermunda Lawrence
4/21/09
4:20PM
Two women who fled their homes because of domestic violence say they want courts in Japan to prevent their husbands from receiving family stimulus checks. These stimulus checks are sent to the registered head of a household. The women said they could not update their residency information and register as heads of their households because they are afraid their husbands would find out where they live. One woman from Yokohama left her husband 6 months ago after a domestic violence act which resulted in some of her teeth being broken. A stimulus check for her and her two children would come to $424. The other woman from Kawasaki left her husband when she was pregnant because of a similar situation. The stimulus check for her and her baby would come to $323.
These have been scarred both physically and mentally. Now I don’t know how Japanese government work, I would think they are sending the stimulus checks to not only the head of the household, but to the one who has custody of the children. What do you all think? I think the women should have left because of the situation they are in but what about the children. If they would have taken the children with them, I would agree that the husband should not get the stimulus checks if that was the case.
YOKOHAMA, Japan
United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/20/Battered-women-seek-stimulus-checks/UPI-68451240235539/
1 comment:
I don't believe that the husband should recieve stimulus checks, I believe that if the husbands were abusive custody should go to the mothers and they should be recieveing child support from their husbands. Of course though, we really can't tell the Japanese courts how to work.
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