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Evaluating Child Support Policy Options For Incarcerated Noncustodial Parents
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Book Synopsis Evaluating Child Support Policy Options for Incarcerated Noncustodial Parents by :
Download or read book Evaluating Child Support Policy Options for Incarcerated Noncustodial Parents written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significant number of incarcerated parents in the United States highlights a range of policy issues. This dissertation addresses one specific concern: the ability of incarcerated non-custodial parents to meet their child support obligations during and after prison. Because incarceration substantially reduces the amount of income available from which child support can be paid, leading to the accumulation of arrears, it may affect post-incarceration behavior relating to participation in the formal economy and cooperation with the child support system. This, ultimately, could lead to fewer resources for custodial parents and worse outcomes for children. Based on a natural experiment in Wisconsin, this dissertation provides suggestive evidence that one potential policy response--suspending the child support orders of incarcerated parents--improves several child support outcomes of interest post incarceration. These outcomes include the mechanical effect of a significant decrease in the amount of arrears at the time of release and one year after exit, substantive and significant declines in child support order amounts, a significantly greater likelihood that a child support payment would be made and an increase in the amount paid in the first year following release, and a statistically significant increase in the level of compliance in both the first year and second years following release. No discernible effect on employment outcomes was found. This information fills a gap in the empirical evidence related to the effectiveness of policies to modify child support orders of incarcerated payers. It is an initial step in the effort to disentangle the relationships between child support and incarceration. However, as documented here, there is substantial variation in policy across states in the treatment of the child support orders of incarcerated noncustodial parents. The decision to modify the child support orders of incarcerated parents is complicated, given the need to balance competing interests and perspectives. Given these complexities, and the limitations of the current analysis, more research is needed to test the suggestive findings and explore other outcomes of interest.
Book Synopsis Child Support and Low-income Families by : Maureen Rosamond Waller
Download or read book Child Support and Low-income Families written by Maureen Rosamond Waller and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines why the child support system breaks down for so many low-income families, presenting information from interviews with unmarried mothers and fathers nationwide. Four chapters focus on: (1) "Introduction" (child support policy in California and nationwide); (2) "The National and California Child Support Systems" (California's system involves: opening child support cases, locating noncustodial parents, establishing paternity, establishing support orders, enforcing support orders, and modifying support orders and treatment of past-due support payments); (3) "Effects on Low-Income Parents" (deadbeat dads and responsible fathers, financial disincentives created by assigning child support rights to the state, responses to financial disincentives, family conflicts created by mandatory cooperation, formal payments versus direct or in-kind payments, responses to mandatory cash support, problems created by enforcement practices, and problems with the modification process); and (4) "Conclusions and Policy Options" (general changes such as raising the pass-through and establishing child support assurance, and specific changes such as setting awards as a realistic percentage of the noncustodial parent's income, forgiving or limiting arrearage, and recognizing informal support). (Contains 38 references.) (SM)
Download or read book Child Support Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Incarceration, Reentry and Child Support Issues by :
Download or read book Incarceration, Reentry and Child Support Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Action Transmittal by : United States. Office of Child Support Enforcement
Download or read book Action Transmittal written by United States. Office of Child Support Enforcement and published by . This book was released on with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Policy Analysis as Problem Solving by : Rachel Meltzer
Download or read book Policy Analysis as Problem Solving written by Rachel Meltzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing extensively from real-life cases, Policy Analysis as Problem Solving helps students develop the analytic skills necessary to advise government officials and nonprofit executives on a wide range of policy issues. Unlike other texts, Policy Analysis as Problem Solving employs a pragmatic, heterodox approach to the field. Whereas most texts on policy analysis are anchored in microeconomics, emphasizing economic efficiency, this book takes a broader view, using realistic examples to illustrate the full scope of policy analysis. The book provides succinct but thorough discussions of the key elements of the policy-analytic process, including problem definition, objectives and criteria, development of alternative policy options, and analysis of these alternatives. The text’s practical approach and extensive downloadable resources—which include interviews, case studies, and further readings—will be of enormous benefit to both students and instructors of policy analysis.
Download or read book Prisons of Debt written by Lynne Haney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : From deadbeat to deadbroke -- Making men pay -- The debt of imprisonment -- Punishing parents, creating criminals -- The imprisonment of debt -- The good, the bad, and the dead broke -- Cyclical parenting -- Conclusion : Reforming debt, reimagining fatherhood -- Appendix : about the research.
Book Synopsis Children With Parents in Prison by : Cynthia Seymour
Download or read book Children With Parents in Prison written by Cynthia Seymour and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adults are being incarcerated in the United States at an ever-escalating rate, and child welfare professionals are encountering growing numbers of children who have parents in prison. Current estimates indicate that as many as 1.5 million children have an incarcerated parent; many thousands of others have experienced the incarceration of a parent at some point in their lives. These vulnerable children face unique difficulties, and their growing numbers and special needs demand attention. Existing literature indicates that children whose parents are incarcerated experience a variety of negative consequences, particularly in terms of their emotional health and well being. They also may have difficult interactions or limited contact with their parents. There are also issues connected with their physical care and child custody. The many challenges facing the child welfare system as it attempts to work with this population are explored in Children with Parents in Prison. Topics covered include: "Supporting Families and Children of Mothers in Jail"; "Meeting the Challenge of Permanency Planning for Children with Incarcerated Mothers"; "The Impact of Changing Public Policy on Relatives Caring for Children with Incarcerated Parents"; "Legal Issues and Recommendations"; "Facilitating Parent-Child Contact in Correctional Settings"; "Earning Trust from Youths with None to Spare"; "Developing Quality Services for Offenders and Families"; and in closing, "Understanding the Forces that Influence Incarcerated Fathers' Relationships with Their Children." Children and families have long struggled with the difficulties created when a parent goes to prison. What is new is the magnitude of the problem. This volume calls for increased public awareness of the impact of parental incarceration on children. Its goal is to stimulate discussion about how to best meet the special needs of these children and families and how to provide a resource for the child welfare community as it responds to the growing numbers of children made vulnerable by their parents' incarceration. Cynthia Seymour is general counsel at the Child Welfare League of America in Washington, DC. Creasie Finney Hairston is dean and professor at Jane Addams College of Social Work, the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Book Synopsis Handbook on Child Support Enforcement by :
Download or read book Handbook on Child Support Enforcement written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Helping Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children by :
Download or read book Helping Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED) project was launched in 2012 and aims to improve employment among noncustodial parents in the United States and so increase child support payments. The U.S. Office of Child Support Enforcement has awarded grants to child support agencies in eight states to link parents with employment services that feature case management, parenting activities, and the review and adjustment of child support orders. A five-year evaluation of the project is being conducted by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mathematica Policy Research, and the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. This report presents interim findings, and reflects grantees initial efforts to implement the demonstration and overcome challenges. The report reviews their experiences and the lessons learned so far.
Book Synopsis Fathers Under Fire by : Irwin Garfinkel
Download or read book Fathers Under Fire written by Irwin Garfinkel and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important and highly informative collection of studies on nonresidentfathers and child support should be of great value to scholars and policymakers alike." —American Journal of Sociology Over half of America's children will live apart from their fathers at some point as they grow up, many in the single-mother households that increasingly make up the nation's poor. Federal efforts to improve the collection of child support from fathers appear to have little effect on payments, and many critics have argued that forcing fathers to pay does more harm than good. Much of the uncertainty surrounding child support policies has stemmed from a lack of hard data on nonresident fathers. Fathers Under Fire presents the best available information on the financial and social circumstances of the men who are at the center of the debate. In this volume, social scientists and legal scholars explore the issues underlying the child support debate, chief among them on the potential repercussions of stronger enforcement. Who are nonresident fathers? This volume calls upon both empirical and theoretical data to describe them across a broad economic and social spectrum. Absentee fathers who do not pay child support are much more likely to be school dropouts and low earners than fathers who pay, and nonresident fathers altogether earn less than resident fathers. Fathers who start new families are not significantly less likely to support previous children. But can we predict what would happen if the government were to impose more rigorous child support laws? The data in this volume offer a clearer understanding of the potential benefits and risks of such policies. In contrast to some fears, stronger enforcement is unlikely to push fathers toward. But it does seem to have more of an effect on whether some fathers remarry and become responsible for new families. In these cases, how are subsequent children affected by a father's pre-existing obligations? Should such fathers be allowed to reduce their child support orders in order to provide for their current families? Should child support guidelines permit modifications in the event of a father's changed financial circumstances? Should government enforce a father's right to see his children as well as his obligation to pay support? What can be done to help under- or unemployed fathers meet their payments? This volume provides the information and insight to answer these questions. The need to help children and reduce the public costs of welfare programs is clear, but the process of achieving these goals is more complex. Fathers Under Fire offers an indispensable resource to those searching for effective and equitable solutions to the problems of child support.
Book Synopsis Parents on Trial by : Elizabeth Anne Cozzolino
Download or read book Parents on Trial written by Elizabeth Anne Cozzolino and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the child support enforcement and criminal justice systems have divergent purposes, they are connected when courts jail parents who owe child support debt. Jailing for child support nonpayment is one of many possible mechanisms of child support enforcement, but little is known about how frequently this tactic is used, against whom, and what the consequences are. Using a mixed methods design, this project explores the frequency, process, and consequences of jail for child support nonpayment. This dissertation is divided into four substantive chapters. In Chapter 1, I use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCW) to explore the prevalence of jail for child support debt in a national context, finding that about 14% of debtors go to jail for this debt by the time their child is nine years old. I propose two conceptual pathways into jail, and find that debt load and family complexity are major predictors of incarceration. In Chapter 2, I map the legal process of finding a parent in contempt and committing the parent to jail, focusing on the role of judicial discretion at three crucial decision points in the life of a case. Focusing on my field work in Riley County, Chapter 3 argues that child support officials police the work and family choices of nonresident parents in ways conceptually similar to how welfare policy controls recipients’ behavior. Chapter 4 identifies how interpersonal gendered disputes translate into legal action in the child support enforcement process. This project has the potential to contribute to the national conversation about legal debt, family change, and criminal justice reform, as well as to inform laws and policies concerning child support, criminal justice, and the family. This project also has implications for the study of inequality. Through triangulating a range of novel data sources, this dissertation investigates how one legal process—punitive child support enforcement—affects people’s lives and life chances.
Book Synopsis Children of Incarcerated Parents by : Katherine Gabel
Download or read book Children of Incarcerated Parents written by Katherine Gabel and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.
Book Synopsis Survey of State Child Support Policies, Procedures and Programs for Incarcerated Parents by : Esther Ann Griswold
Download or read book Survey of State Child Support Policies, Procedures and Programs for Incarcerated Parents written by Esther Ann Griswold and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Best Interests of Children by : Susan M. Stanton
Download or read book In the Best Interests of Children written by Susan M. Stanton and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study interrogates the ways in which child support cooperation requirements contribute to the education debt by structuring poverty and facilitating the criminalization and incarceration of low-income, unmarried Black mothers, fathers. Federal law created the IV-D child support enforcement system which generally requires that low-income families applying for certain public assistance programs cooperate with the local child support enforcement agency (CSEA); this cooperation is intended to establish paternity (when the parents are not married) and child support orders and to collect on those orders. Cooperation requirements are masked requirements that bind families to complex and punitive systems with elaborate and life-altering enforcement mechanisms. Cooperation requirements are also essential tools to minimize welfare expenditures which is the legislated mandate of the IV-D child support enforcement system. The limited, existing literature criminalizes mothers'/custodial parents' behavior and bypasses the significance of cooperation for fathers/custodial parents and families. This critical policy analysis speaks into that paucity of research by mapping and contextualizing cooperation and related policies and practices. It also explores the unique experiences of custodial and noncustodial parents as they work to provide for their children. This critical policy analysis centers child support cooperation requirements and utilizes stakeholder interviews (mothers, fathers, service providers, former child support and public assistance program staff), state and federal data, related policies and political discourse to create a deep and contextualized understanding of the operationalization and impacts of cooperation. In mapping the circuitous policy systems bound through cooperation, many themes emerged and four are discussed: Discretion, Learning and Access to Knowledge, Economic (In)stability and Cooperation as a Tool of the Carceral State. These themes detail: 1) the ways in which discretion at all levels creates opportunities for injustice, 2) how current modes of teaching and learning about child support cooperation further mask its significance, empower the state's enforcement efforts, fuel discretionary powers and confuse parents, and 3) the ways that cooperation structures economic instability for families in both the short-term and long-term. Findings suggest that the nation invests in cooperation and related systems that criminalize and incarcerate Black families rather than operating in the best interests of children. This misguided investment furthers the nation's education debt. Implications for children, families, policy and practice and future research are considered.
Book Synopsis A Safety Net That Works by : Robert Doar
Download or read book A Safety Net That Works written by Robert Doar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area’s successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our means-tested programs do many things well, but some adjustments to each could make the system much more effective. This book provides policymakers with a broad overview of the issues at hand in each program and how to address them.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Father Involvement by : Natasha J. Cabrera
Download or read book Handbook of Father Involvement written by Natasha J. Cabrera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together experts from diverse scientific disciplines who share an interest in the topic of father involvement. Unlike most books in the field, which tend to solely draw from a psychological perspective, this Handbook merges theories and research from the unique fields of psychology, economics, demography sociology, anthropology, and social policy. For the most part, research on fathering is motivated by concern for children's well-being. Social scientists share a core set of questions, including: *"Who are fathers?" *"What is father involvement and how does it affect children and families?" *"What are the determinants of father involvement?" *"How do cultural contexts shape fathers' roles in families?" This Handbook sheds light on how a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of fathering can advance knowledge about these fundamental questions. This integrative approach is fundamental to a comprehensive understanding of human development generally, and to fathering more specifically. At the core of this book are the goals of describing and understanding the nature, antecedents, and consequences of father involvement across biological status, family structure, culture, and stages in children's development--both within and across scientific boundaries. Each of the scientific disciplines represented offers unique methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of fathering and to the interpretation of behavioral patterns that characterize ecological systems that include--as well as extend beyond--family units. Together, the chapters offer provocative and challenging insight into the nature and meaning of fatherhood and father involvement by questioning longstanding assumptions about fathers' roles in the lives of families and children in current history.
