Barriers to formal child support payment

LM Berger, M Cancian, A Guarin… - Social Service …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Child support income has the potential to substantially reduce economic hardship for
children living apart from their fathers, but many fathers have limited earnings and are …

[HTML][HTML] 'Let's Bring It Into the 21st Century': Perceptions of fairness in child support

LK Vogel, AM Dennis, N Keita - Children and Youth Services Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Engaging families in child support services is an ongoing challenge. In
recognition of the limitations of traditional strategies, the child support program has started to …

[HTML][HTML] Slowing the 'vicious cycle': Reducing the interest rate on child support arrears

DR Meyer, QH Riser - Children and Youth Services Review, 2023 - Elsevier
The amount of accumulated unpaid child support (arrears) owed throughout the United
States is over $100 billion. High arrears balances mean that those who owe support may …

“A Helping Hand over a Heavy Hand”: Child Support Enforcement in the Era of COVID-19

LK Vogel, A Ros Pilarz, L Cuesta… - Human Service …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic forced human services agencies to adapt quickly to the economic
realities faced by their customers. For child support agencies, the pandemic raised difficult …

Invested mothering: An intersectional analysis of mothers' feminized breadwinning strategies under state-mandated child support arrangements

A Ponce - Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2024 - Springer
This article conceptualizes invested mothering to explain how mothers typically serve as
both primary caregivers and financial providers under court-mandated shared parenting. A …

Shared placement in nonmarital families: An initial look

MA Costanzo, A Reilly - Family Relations, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective We aim to examine the prevalence of shared placement in nonmarital cases, and
we then consider whether and how nonmarital shared placement cases differ from sole …

[图书][B] The failure of child support: Gendered systems of inaccessibility, inaction and irresponsibility

K Cook - 2022 - books.google.com
Drawing on interviews with informants from a diverse range of 16 countries, including the
US, the UK, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Peru, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Nigeria …

Too much, too little, or just right? Recent changes to state child support guidelines for low-income noncustodial parents

L Hodges, LK Vogel - Journal of Policy Practice and Research, 2021 - Springer
There are growing concerns that current child support guidelines may result in “too high”
orders likely to go unpaid and resulting in substantial debt. Recent federal legislation reflects …

The right tool for the job: Child support enforcement tools and their relationship to payments

LK Vogel - Human Service Organizations: Management …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Child support staff have an array of tools to use when noncustodial parents fail to pay.
Drawing on staff interviews, this analysis examines staff perspectives on when and how to …

A reason for the unmet needs of children in contact with social services? Non-resident fathers' perspectives on delinquent child maintenance claims

V Awortwe, H Bentum, E Cudjoe, A Abdullah - Children and Youth Services …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Often times, during (after) divorce or separation, fathers in Ghana are reported
to the Department of Social Welfare for not honouring their child maintenance obligations …