... 2014–2019, we study child support receipt among single mothers living in extended-family households in Chile, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. We have three aims: to present the prevalence and characteristics of single mothers living with relatives, compare the level of child support...

...Hanno Foerster Abstract In many countries, divorce law mandates post-marital maintenance payments (child support and alimony) to insure the lower earner in married couples against financial losses upon divorce. This paper studies how maintenance payments affect couples’ intertemporal decisions...

... maintenance child protection child support neglect social work mandate UNICEF Ghana Child protection systems in various jurisdictions often have the statutory mandate to intervene in the lives of families to safeguard the welfare of vulnerable children ( Gilbert, 2012 ; Connolly and Katz, 2019...

... of single-mother households. In 1980, 31 organizations formed an umbrella group to push for the reform of the child support policy, known as the Front commun pour un véritable service de perception des pensions. ²⁴ This women’s movement found political allies in women’s policy agencies...

... instituted child support agencies in the late 1900s and had some policies that resulted in having lowered governmental expenditures when child support was paid. Building on previous research comparing these four countries, this article examines the extent to which these countries currently use explicit cost...

... This paper provides new evidence on the impact on educational attainment of an international child support (ICS) program, implemented in ten primary schools located in the peri-urban districts of the city of Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo). Using original micro data from a sample of 309 children (treated...

... domestic violence and abuse services for children and young people’ ( 6 ). While a body of research is emerging on the general practice response to adult victims of DVA ( 7 ), uncertainty remains about the best general practice response to children and young people. Child neglect child support...

... to influence important aspects of the schooling process at low cost. Parental involvement Cluster randomized trial Classroom peer effects Child support I21 J13 J18 Using a large-scale randomized control trial undertaken in Paris area middle schools, we show that a very simple and low-cost program...

...Anne Skevik There exist several US studies that deal with child support compliance and non-payment (eg Seltzer et al, 1989 ; Arditti and Keith, 1993 ; Thompson, 1994 ; Smock and Manning, 1997; Sorensen, 1997 ; Manning and Smock, 2000 ; Manning et al, 2003 ). Still, we have...

...Laura Curran Social Work and Fathers: Child Support and Fathering Programs Laura Curran In recent years social welfare policies and practices have increasingly addressed men’s roles as fathers. The landmark welfare...

...John G. Robertson Young nonresidential fathers have lower earnings: Implications for child support enforcement John G. Robertson The study reported here used data from the National otivated by concerns about rising poverty Longitudinal Survey of Youth to compare...

..., and an assured child support benefit to all geted at extremely poor families headed by single families with children—poor families as well as mothers. Much of the disapproval has centered nonpoor families—what would happen to poverty and around two...

... awarded by the Ford Foundation. The author thanks Sarah Gorman and Geetha Mandayam for their assistance in conducting the research and the child support agency staff for time, interest, and willingness to help carry out this research. The conclusions are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect...

... child support CRFR friendship The Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) is committed to building links between academic research, policy and practice. The ideas behind this book emerged from ongoing discussions about furthering links across organisations and agencies concerned...

...The book begins by invoking child support laws and policies as gendered tools of governance that contain fundamental assumptions about the appropriate conduct of mothers and fathers following separation. While child support has been introduced across countries to reduce child poverty following...

...This chapter takes up the conceptual framework set out in Chapter 3 to reflect on the identified points of failure and interrogate how states can concurrently claim the success of their child support systems. In doing so, the chapter engages with the politics of child support and the political...

...Chapter 6 advance the discussion of child support failures and the political management of social problems. It examines who benefits from the ways that child support fails, and the interests served at institutional and interactional levels. The primary argument is that child support systems inhere...

...This chapter examines how, in many systems, child support remains or has been returned to a private agreement between parents as a way for states to avoid or manage the difficulties posed by technical solutions, including the cost to government. However, personal child support payment relationships...

...Drawing on interviews with informants from a diverse range of 16 countries, including the US, UK, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Peru, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Nigeria, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers...

... population and where it may differ. It also looks at some of the common experiences and backgrounds of the interviewees in terms of parenthood, substitute mothering, marital and nonmarital history, paternity and child support (for absent fathers), welfare use, the impact of race and ethnicity on welfare use...