Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. What are the policies and who are the fathers?
  • Brief history of child support policies in the United States / Irwin Garfinkel, Daniel R. Meyer, Sara S. McLanahan
  • Patchwork portrait of nonresident fathers / Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan, Thomas L. Hanson
  • pt. II. How does child support enforcement affect fathers?
  • Effect of child support on the economic status of nonresident fathers / Daniel R. Meyer
  • Does child support enforcement policy affect male labor supply? / Richard B. Freeman and Jane Waldfogel
  • Child support and fathers' remarriage and fertility / David E. Bloom, Cecilia Conrad and Cynthia Miller
  • Will child support enforcement increase father-child contact and parental conflict after separation? / Judith A. Seltzer, Sara S. McLanahan and Thomas L. Hanson
  • Effects of stronger child support enforcement on nonmarital fertility / Anne Case
  • pt. III. Should we do more to help fathers?
  • Programs to increase fathers' access to their children / Jessica Pearson and Nancy Thoenes
  • Low-income parents and the parents' fair share program : an early qualitative look at improving the ability and desire of low-income noncustodial parents to pay child support / Earl S. Johnson and Fred Doolittle
  • How should we think about child support obligations? / Martha Minow
  • Conclusions / Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan, Daniel R. Meyer and Judith A. Seltzer.