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Author: Good, David H.
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Good, David H. Pirog-Good, Maureen A. |
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Child Support Enforcement for Teenage Fathers: Problems and Prospects Presented: [S.L.], Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings, 1990 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Child Support; Children; Deviance; Earnings; Fathers; Fathers and Children; Labor Force Participation; Teenagers; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Each state administers a Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program which establishes paternities, obtains and enforces child support orders and distributes the child support collected. The treatment of teenage fathers by the CSE program varies widely across states and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction within states. Data from the NLSY indicate that about 7.4 percent of teenage males become fathers, very few live with their children, and most of the absent fathers never come into contact with the CSE program. The authors show that teen fathers who live with their children enter the labor market earlier that other teenage males to the long-run detriment of their earnings. However, the earnings of absent teen fathers are at least as high as that of teens who never become fathers and that the potential of teen fathers to contribute to the support of their children increases with time. National guidelines for the treatment of teenage fathers by the CSE program are recommended with specific recommendations concerning the early establishment of paternity and the setting of child support award amounts. |
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Good, David H. and Maureen A. Pirog-Good. "Child Support Enforcement for Teenage Fathers: Problems and Prospects." Presented: [S.L.], Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings, 1990. |
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Pirog-Good, Maureen A. Good, David H. |
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Child Support Enforcement for Teenage Fathers: Problems and Prospects Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 14,1 (Winter 1995): 25-43. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3325431/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Child Support; Fatherhood; Fathers; Fathers and Children Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Data from the NLSY (National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experiences-Youth Cohort) indicate that about 7.3 percent of teenage males become fathers and that very few of these fathers live with their children. Father absence and the concurrent increase in female-headed households are closely associated with the impoverishment of children. Most absent teen fathers never come into contact with the child support enforcement (CSE) program, and the extent to which they financially support their children informally is not well understood. While the income of absent teen fathers is low in the teen years, it increases over time, as does the potential for collecting child support. Nevertheless, men who were absent teen fathers earn less in early adulthood than men who deferred parenting until age 20 or later and teen fathers who lived with their children. Early establishment of paternity and greater standardization in the treatment of adolescent fathers by the child support enforcement program are recommended. Further, the substantial and persistent income deficit experienced by adolescent fathers who live apart from their children raises an interesting dilemma. While children may benefit financially and psychosocially from living with two parents, the lower income of men who were absent teenage fathers may make them poor marital prospects. This raises doubts about the recent recommendations of some scholars that we should bring back the shotgun wedding. |
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Bibliography Citation
Pirog-Good, Maureen A. and David H. Good. "Child Support Enforcement for Teenage Fathers: Problems and Prospects." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 14,1 (Winter 1995): 25-43.
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