A quickly developing literature has shown that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid
expansions have improved health insurance coverage, health, and financial well‐being …

Despite dramatic increases in collections, child support frequently fails to be the linchpin to
family self‐sufficiency that it could be, and many researchers, advocates and policymakers …

Prior studies have found little evidence of an association between unemployment and child
support compliance. However, few such studies used sample periods including a recession …

State child support enforcement agencies facilitate the legal establishment of paternity for
children born outside of marriage and enforce the payment of child support by noncustodial …

United States federal and state child support enforcement policies were intended to extract
funds from absent parents to redistribute to children and to reimburse government …

The child support program reaches half of poor children in the United States, and recent
policy proposals would incorporate parenting time into all initial child support orders …

Despite proposals to make parenting time a part of all new child support orders, limited
research has examined why some unmarried are more likely than others to establish legal …

Fathers play an important role in children's healthy development. Federal policy has sought
to strengthen fathers' emotional and financial engagement with their children through child …

Abstract Families experiencing out-of-home placement (OHP) are in crisis. The fact that a
child has been removed from the home means the family has become involved with the child …

Child support policy is one of the key forces in the lives of families in the US, where 1 in 4
children and half of African American children live apart from their fathers (Carlson et al …