{"id":1100,"date":"2014-09-12T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:29:51","slug":"shanesha-taylor-regains-custody-of-her-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2014\/09\/12\/shanesha-taylor-regains-custody-of-her-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanesha Taylor Regains Custody of her Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.com\/images\/US\/AP_shanesha_taylor_1_sk_140725_16x9_992.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO: Shanesha Taylor is hugged as Rev. Jarrett Maupin looks on, outside Maricopa County Superior Court, July 18, 2014 in Phoenix.\" width=\"391\" height=\"220\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading the PLAP blog regularly, then you&#8217;ll remember the post titled <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2014\/09\/01\/mothering-between-a-rock-and-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mothering Between a Rock and a Hard Place&#8221;<\/a> that told the story of Shanesha Taylor and her struggle as a poor, single mother. Well, today\u00a0I learned that \u00a0Shanesha Taylor has been awarded custody of her children again! Shanesha&#8217;s children were taken by Child Protective Services following the\u00a0charges of\u00a0child abuse for leaving her two youngest children in a car while she went for a job interview. Fortunately, the incredible support Shanesha received from the public was enough to influence the courts. It&#8217;s about time poverty stricken single mothers are given a voice, a chance, and a change.<\/p>\n<p>Change starts on the ground level! Stand up for justice!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/mom-regains-custody-kids-left-hot-car-job\/story?id=25436391\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the original article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve been reading the PLAP blog regularly, then you&#8217;ll remember the post titled &#8220;Mothering Between a Rock and a Hard Place&#8221; that told the story of Shanesha Taylor and her struggle as a poor, single mother. Well, today\u00a0I learned that \u00a0Shanesha Taylor has been awarded custody of her children again! Shanesha&#8217;s children were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34,2,10,36,39,28,31,52,4,9,43,12],"tags":[35,16,46,37,38,47,48,40,49,50,41,51,29,44,53,54,55],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-constitutional-rights","category-court-decisions","category-economics","category-fines","category-mothers-in-prison","category-non-violent-offenders","category-prison-reform","category-probation","category-publications-and-advocacy","category-sentencing","category-single-mothers","category-youth","tag-child-care","tag-community","tag-decisions","tag-harvard","tag-harvard-prison-legal-assistance-project","tag-justice","tag-mothers","tag-mothers-in-prison-2","tag-non-violent-offenses","tag-plap","tag-poverty","tag-prison-legal-assistance-project","tag-prison-news","tag-single-mothers-2","tag-single-parent","tag-unemployment","tag-womens-rights","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}