Indebted Relationships: Child Support Arrears and Nonresident Fathers' Involvement With Children

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly J. Turner ◽  
Maureen R. Waller
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Nonresident Fathers

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 Public Assistance, Relationship Context, and Jail for Child Support Debt

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311875712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cozzolino
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Public Assistance ◽  
Fragile Families ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
Child Support Enforcement ◽  
Formal Support ◽  
Relationship Context ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Support Order

Previous studies of poverty governance have focused on the welfare system, the criminal justice system, and the connections between them. Yet less attention has been paid to a third institution that bridges the gap between these two systems: child support enforcement. Jailing for child support nonpayment is one of many mechanisms of child support enforcement, but little is known about this tactic. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, the author examines the process of nonresident fathers’ (1) acquiring a formal support order, (2) accruing child support debt, and (3) being jailed for this debt. The author proposes two pathways into jail for child support nonpayment—public assistance and relationship context—and demonstrates how each pathway affects the risk for jail. Overall, 14 percent of debtors spend time in jail for child support by the time their children are nine years old.

Nonresident Fathers’ Spending on Children: Child Support Payments and Housing Instability

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1470-1497
Author(s):  
Patricia Lewis ◽  
Sabino Kornrich
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Fragile Families ◽  
Housing Instability ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Formal Support

Previous research finds that fathers’ monetary contributions are associated with housing instability, but it is unclear whether effects are similar across more and less severe types of housing instability. In this research, we investigate how nonresident fathers’ monetary contributions are linked to having skipped rent or mortgage payments, moving in with others (“doubling up”) in the last year, moving residences more than once, or having been evicted or homeless. We use data on a population of at-risk families using the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (FFCWS) ( n = 1,919). We estimate logistic regression models that control for socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Both formal and informal financial support from fathers was significantly associated with lower mother/child housing instability. Housing instability appears to diminish more rapidly with greater informal support than with greater formal support, but the confidence intervals for these estimates overlap, making them indistinguishable.

What Fathers Say About Involvement With Children After Separation

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUDITH A. SELTZER ◽  
YVONNE BRANDRETH
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Paternal Involvement ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Racial Composition ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
Nonresident Father ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Potential Impact

This article examines the potential impact of nonresponse on information about paternal involvement after separation by comparing the sample of mothers whose children have a nonresident father to the sample of nonresident fathers in the National Survey of Families and Households. We show that when the samples are restricted to parents of children who were born in a first marriage, resident mothers and nonresident fathers are similar on a variety of demographic characteristics, including racial composition, family size, and duration of separation. Although resident mothers and nonresident fathers in the restricted sample report more similar levels of paternal involvement after divorce than in the comparison of the unrestricted samples, fathers still report greater involvement than do mothers. Whether the respondent is the mother or father does not affect the factors that predict variation in child support receipts or payments or visits between nonresident fathers and children. The last part of the article examines nonresident fathers' attitudes toward their role as a parent. Fathers' evaluations of their role depend more on their remarriage and characteristics of the children in their new household than on involvement with children from a previous relationship.

scholarly journals Nonresident Fathers and Formal Child Support: Evidence from the CPS, NSFG, and SIPP

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 1299-1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Bart Stykes ◽  
Wendy D. Manning ◽  
Susan L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
Support Evidence
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