Gaylynn Burroughs is a staff attorney in the Family Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders in New York City. She received her J.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Women, Children, and Families Public Interest Law Scholar. She has worked for the Feminist Majority Foundation and was formerly a high school teacher. She is the author of “Too Poor to Parent?” appearing in the Spring 2008 issue of Ms. magazine.