Mothers’ Reports of Nonresident Fathers’ Involvement With Their Children: Revisiting the Relationship Between Child Support Payment and Visitation

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Chung Huang
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
Child Support Payment ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Key Determinants of a Mother's Decision to File for Child Support

2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Hassebrock Laakso
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Significant Source ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Decision To File

About one-third of custodial mothers choose not to pursue a child support award even though it can be a significant source of income. A qualitative study was conducted with 43 mothers who have each had at least one child in a nonmarital relationship, to learn more about how mothers make the decision to file or not file for child support. The findings indicate that a key determinant in a mother's decision is the quality of her relationship with the father: a mother is less likely to file when the relationship is good and more likely to file when the relationship is poor or has ended. Other key determinants are family influence and availability of information about filing. Visitation was not found to influence these decisions. Unfortunately, mothers are often making their decisions without access to accurate and timely information. Social workers frequently are employed in settings that serve families faced with decisions about child support, and have numerous opportunities for intervention by providing both information and guidance about the decision.

Family Ties after Divorce: The Relationship between Visiting and Paying Child Support

1989 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Seltzer ◽  
Nora Cate Schaeffer ◽  
Hong-Wen Charng
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Relationship

State Efforts to Support the Engagement of Nonresident Fathers in the Lives of Their Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-408
Author(s):  
Jessica Pearson ◽  
Jay Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Block Grant ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Temporary Assistance

Few states invest in programs to help nonresident fathers engage in the financial and emotional lives of their children. The present study examines 12 exemplary states that promote, fund, and evaluate nonresident fatherhood engagement through an array of state agencies, policies, and fatherhood programs. Our study finds that states with substantial fatherhood initiatives share some common characteristics, including strong leadership from executives of state human service agencies, funding from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant and/or child support, multiagency collaborations for service delivery, and documentation of program benefits and return on investment.

scholarly journals Walking a High Beam

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason T. Castillo ◽  
Greg W. Welch ◽  
Christian M. Sarver
Keyword(s):  
Father Involvement ◽  
Fragile Families ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Workplace Flexibility ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Employment Stability ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Compared with resident fathers, nonresident fathers are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed and less likely, when they are employed, to have access to flexible work arrangements. Although lack of employment stability is associated with lower levels of father involvement, some research shows that increased stability at work without increased flexibility is negatively related to involvement. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study ( N = 895), the authors examined the relationship between nonresident fathers’ employment stability, workplace flexibility, and father involvement. Results indicate that workplace flexibility, but not employment stability, is associated with higher levels of involvement. Policy and practice implications are discussed.

The Denial of Paternity: Pregnancy as a Risk to the ‘Pure Relationship’

Sociology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1110-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Turney
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Paternity Testing ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Discursive Context ◽  
The Early 21St Century

This article draws on a study of the use of genetic paternity testing in the Australian context. It uses data from interviews with women in regular or cohabitating relationships whose partners exited the relationship because of a pregnancy and subsequently denied paternity. At a broader level, it explores the fragility of paternity itself in the early 21st century within the context of unprecedented sexual freedoms and transformative changes to family formation and intimate relationships. It also locates cohabitating paternity in a broader discursive context that has seen an unparalleled demonization of mothers as potential perpetrators of ‘paternity fraud’, a neo-legal exposé of infidelity and extortion of child support that commercial DNA paternity testing purports to be able to uncover.

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