The Politics Of Child Support In America

Author : Jocelyn Elise Crowley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521535115

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The Politics of Child Support in America by Jocelyn Elise Crowley Pdf

Political observers have long since struggled with understanding how new ideas are placed on the public agenda. In their studies, most social scientists have relied on biographical sketches and intensive case studies to explore the intricacies of innovation. Researchers have had much more difficulty, however, in moving from these individual success stories to more generalizable theories of entrepreneurship. This book builds such a theory by focusing on the critical issue of child support enforcement in the United States. Covering over a 100 year period, this book tracks the evolution of multiple sets of political entrepreneurs as they grapple with the child support problem: charity workers with local law enforcement in the nineteenth century, social workers throughout the 1960s, conservatives during the 1970s, women's groups and women legislators in the 1980s, and fathers' rights groups in the 1990s and beyond.

Author : Joseph I. Lieberman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300042108

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Child Support in America by Joseph I. Lieberman Pdf

Explains how to arrive at a fair child support settlement, discusses the problem of delinquent payments, and suggests ways to improve the system

Author : Ruth Gillie Krueger
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780595181629

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Analyzing the Development of the American Child Support System by Ruth Gillie Krueger Pdf

On August 22, 1996, President William Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. Media and goververnment sources portrayed this act as the most important welfare reform since the passage of Social Security in the New Deal 61 years earlier. The hype around welfare reform overshadowed a significant section of the act entitled, “Title III—Child Support.” This section of the act made major changes in the child support program that is charged with the task of establishing, enforcing and modifying child support orders for children with non-residential parents. This book tells the story of the development and passage of the 1996 child support reforms.

Author : Nancy A. Crowell,Ethel M. Leeper
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Families
ISBN : NAP:11661

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America's Fathers and Public Policy by Nancy A. Crowell,Ethel M. Leeper Pdf

Presents the full text of "America's Fathers and Public Policy: Report of a Workshop," edited by Nancy A. Crowell and Ethel M. Leeper. Lists committee members and workshop participants and notes acknowledgments. Remarks that the Board on Children and Families convened the workshop, "America's Fathers: Abiding and Emerging Roles in Family and Economic Support Policies," held in Washington, D.C., on September 26-28, 1993. Notes that the main topics of discussion centered around child support, teenage fathers, fathers of disabled children, and inner-city poor fathers. The Report from the workshop examines such topics as economic support, barriers and incentives to involvement, and public policy regarding fathers' rights. Contains a bibliography, a list of references and suggested directions for research, and the workshop's agenda. Links to the home pages of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy Press (NAP), as well as to other reports.

Author : Irwin Garfinkel,Sara McLanahan,Philip K. Robins
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : 087766563X

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Child Support Assurance by Irwin Garfinkel,Sara McLanahan,Philip K. Robins Pdf

Author : David L. Chambers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1979-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226100774

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Making Fathers Pay by David L. Chambers Pdf

A couple with children divorce. A court orders the father to pay child support, but the father fails to pay. This pattern repeats itself thousands of times every year in nearly every American state. Making Fathers Pay is David L. Chambers's study of the child-support collection process in Michigan, the state most successful in inducing fathers to pay. He begins by reporting the perilous financial problems of divorced mothers with children, problems faced even by mothers who work full time and receive child support. The study then examines the characteristics of fathers who do and do not pay support and the characteristics of collections systems that work. Chambers's findings are based largely on records of fathers' support payments in twenty-eight Michigan counties, some of which jail hundreds of men for nonpayment every year. Chambers finds that in places well organized to collect support, jailing nonpayers seems to produce higher payments from men jailed and from men not jailed, but only at a high social cost. He also raises grave doubts about the fairness of the judicial process that leads to jail. While Chambers's total sample includes 12,000 men, he interweaves through his text moving interviews with members of one family caught in the painful predicaments that men, women, and children face upon separation. To increase support for children at lower social costs, Chambers advocates a national system of compulsory deductions from the wages of non-custodial parents who earn more than enough for their own subsistence.

Author : Irwin Garfinkel,Sara S. McLanahan,Daniel R. Meyer,Judith A. Seltzer
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610442404

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Fathers Under Fire by Irwin Garfinkel,Sara S. McLanahan,Daniel R. Meyer,Judith A. Seltzer Pdf

"This important and highly informative collection of studies on nonresidentfathers and child support should be of great value to scholars and policymakers alike." —American Journal of Sociology Over half of America's children will live apart from their fathers at some point as they grow up, many in the single-mother households that increasingly make up the nation's poor. Federal efforts to improve the collection of child support from fathers appear to have little effect on payments, and many critics have argued that forcing fathers to pay does more harm than good. Much of the uncertainty surrounding child support policies has stemmed from a lack of hard data on nonresident fathers. Fathers Under Fire presents the best available information on the financial and social circumstances of the men who are at the center of the debate. In this volume, social scientists and legal scholars explore the issues underlying the child support debate, chief among them on the potential repercussions of stronger enforcement. Who are nonresident fathers? This volume calls upon both empirical and theoretical data to describe them across a broad economic and social spectrum. Absentee fathers who do not pay child support are much more likely to be school dropouts and low earners than fathers who pay, and nonresident fathers altogether earn less than resident fathers. Fathers who start new families are not significantly less likely to support previous children. But can we predict what would happen if the government were to impose more rigorous child support laws? The data in this volume offer a clearer understanding of the potential benefits and risks of such policies. In contrast to some fears, stronger enforcement is unlikely to push fathers toward. But it does seem to have more of an effect on whether some fathers remarry and become responsible for new families. In these cases, how are subsequent children affected by a father's pre-existing obligations? Should such fathers be allowed to reduce their child support orders in order to provide for their current families? Should child support guidelines permit modifications in the event of a father's changed financial circumstances? Should government enforce a father's right to see his children as well as his obligation to pay support? What can be done to help under- or unemployed fathers meet their payments? This volume provides the information and insight to answer these questions. The need to help children and reduce the public costs of welfare programs is clear, but the process of achieving these goals is more complex. Fathers Under Fire offers an indispensable resource to those searching for effective and equitable solutions to the problems of child support.

Author : Cook, Kay
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447348870

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The Failure of Child Support by Cook, Kay Pdf

Drawing on interviews with informants from a diverse range of 16 countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Peru, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Nigeria, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It lays out how these systems are structured in ways that render them ineffective, while positioning women as responsible for their failures. The book charts the demise of child support as a feminist intervention, resituating it as gendered governance practice that operates by making the system inaccessible, failing to deliver outcomes, and condoning fathers’ irresponsibility. It identifies how the gender order is entrenched through child support failure and offers possibilities for feminist reform.

Author : Irwin Garfinkel,Sara McLanahan
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015047851756

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Single Mothers and Their Children by Irwin Garfinkel,Sara McLanahan Pdf

The proportion of children living in households headed by single women is more than one in five. There is concern (and some evidence) that children of single parents are less likely to be successful adults. The book discusses the trends in public debate about this problem. In particular, it examines the issue of providing public assistance to such families and whether doing so fosters long-term welfare dependency.

Author : Jyl J. Josephson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0847683729

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Gender, Families, and State by Jyl J. Josephson Pdf

This insightful and original book is the first to examine the relationship between families and the state in the United States, both in theory and in practice, using child support policy as a lens of analysis. Josephson cogently presents the origins, evolution, and organization of federal child support programs and persuasively demonstrates how some child support enforcement policies, rather than increasing women's access to economic resources, expand government and social control over the beneficiaries. Drawing on the literature of both feminist political theory and public policy implementation, Josephson analyzes the impact of family law and social welfare policies through several empirical case studies. This is important reading for anyone interested in political theory, public policy, and women's relationship to the state.

Author : Catherine E. Rymph
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469635651

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Raising Government Children by Catherine E. Rymph Pdf

In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.

Author : Kay Cook,Thomas Meysen,Adrienne Byrt
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800882409

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Single Parents and Child Support Systems by Kay Cook,Thomas Meysen,Adrienne Byrt Pdf

Taking a novel approach to child support policy analysis, Single Parents and Child Support Systems locates the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem and compares the political, institutional and administrative dimensions of child support policy enactment across the globe.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management, and Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754073713178

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H.R. 866, to prohibit the provision of financial assistance by the federal government to any person who is more than 60 days delinquent in the payment of any child support obligation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management, and Intergovernmental Relations Pdf

Author : Marcia M. Boumil,Joel Friedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780313022210

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Deadbeat Dads by Marcia M. Boumil,Joel Friedman Pdf

Recently, many political voices have indicated a strong desire to track down absent fathers who have absconded without fulfilling child support obligations to their biological or adopted children. This renewed interest in deadbeat dads has resulted from a recognition that the social welfare programs, which pick up the tab for abandoned children, are contributing significantly to an ever-increasing federal budget deficit. Meanwhile, in a large number of cases, there simply isn't enough money for an absent parent to maintain his own separate support and fulfill the support obligations that the law requires. This book explores the history, reforms, and consequences of child support in America. The authors have included case studies as well as discussions on the psychological consequences of separating families, effects of divorce laws on the award of child support, contested paternity, and child custody alternatives. They conclude with a discussion on economic responsibility and the deadbeat epidemic. The book is intended to empower the larger number of parents who are caught in the midst of overworked agencies, discouraging tales, and the lack of information that keeps them paralyzed from acting on their own behalf.

Author : Michael R. Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Actions and defenses
ISBN : IND:30000044595100

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Essentials for Attorneys in Child Support Enforcement by Michael R. Henry Pdf