A National Profile of Nonresident Fathers and Their Ability to Pay Child Support

1997 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
Ability To Pay ◽  
National Profile

scholarly journals Noncustodial Fathers' Ability to Pay Child Support

Demography ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irwin Garfinkel ◽  
Donald Oellerich
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Ability To Pay ◽  
Noncustodial 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.

Assortative mating among unmarried parents: Implications for ability to pay child support

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irwin Garfinkel ◽  
Dana Glei ◽  
Sara S. McLanahan
Keyword(s):  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Ability To Pay

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.

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