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Failing Our Fathers : Confronting the Crisis of Economically Vulnerable Nonresident Fathers.
Slandered as irresponsible, deadbeat dads, nonresident fathers are a greatly misunderstood population. These fathers are overlooked in discussions of poverty and economic vulnerability-often being viewed as the cause of social problems, rather than as having been abandoned by society. In Failing our...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Failing Our Fathers; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Preface; Juan's Story; 1 Introduction; Nonresident Fathers: The Residue of Marital Decline; Economic Trends and Vulnerable Fathers; Economically Vulnerable Nonresident Fathers; Overview: How and What We Present; Franco's Story; 2 Employment; Victims of "the Slowdown"; Did Nonresident Fathers Fare Better or Worse Than Other Men During The Recession?; Making Ends Meet; Chronically Unemployed Workers: Experiencing the Consequences of Incarceration; Felony Convictions Damage Future Employment Prospects
- Work and the Chronically UnemployedAdjusting Employment Arrangements to Meet the Child Support Expense; Regular Work Preferred; Kelly's Story; 3 Child Support; Informal Child Support; Formal Child Support; The Economy and Child Support Compliance; "It's Better That Way": When Automatic Wage Withholding Helps Maintain Compliance; "I Would Have Become Homeless": When Automatic Wage Withholding Becomes a Burden; "They Will Work With You": Successful Child Support Modifications; "I'm Pretty Sure It's a Long Process": Obstacles to Child Support Modifications; Help From Fatherhood Programs
- Sanctions"A No Win Situation": Suspension of Driver's License; Sanctions; Frozen Bank Accounts and Damaged Credit: Financial Enforcement; "If I Knew I Was Getting Money Back, I Would File": Seizure of Tax Refunds; "Why Do You Keep Trying to Lock Me Up?": Enforcement Through Incarceration; Ernest's Story; 4 The Roles Nonresident Fathers Play; The Breadwinner Role: Strain and Regret; Strain; Educational Regret; Non Financial Roles: Staying Present as Teachers, Friends, Advisors and Disciplinarians; Teachers: Providing Educational Support; Friends: Forming Emotional Bonds
- Advisors: Imparting Values and Life LessonsDisciplinarians: Correcting and Molding; If Not the Breadwinner, Then What?; Quality Engagement Matters: It's Not Just About Time and Money; Dewight's Story; 5 The Challenges of Nonresident Fatherhood; Mother-Father Relationships: Its Not Just about Fathers and Children; Co-Parenting: After the Love Is Gone; Gatekeeping: "You Shouldn't Use the Child as Your Way to Get Back at Me"; Re-partnering and Multipartner Fertility: Competing Responsibilities; Domestic Violence: The Deal Breaker
- Distance and Limited Visitation: "Our Time Is Not as Much as I Would Like"Personal Battles: Substance Abuse, Incarceration, and Street Life; Substance Abuse: "Living in an Underground Tomb"; Incarceration: Forgotten and Abandoned; Street Life: Getting Caught Up in the Game; That Empty Loneliness Feeling; The Father Merry-Go-Round; Willie's Story; 6 Policy Reforms to Help Vulnerable Fathers; Why So Rough?; Can We All Get Along?; Oops!; Setting the Order; Self-Support Reserve, Low-Income Standards, and Minimum Orders: What's the Difference?; Getting It Right in the First Place; Imputing Income