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Author: Pirog-Good, Maureen A.
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1. Good, David H.
Pirog-Good, Maureen A.
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

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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.
Bibliography Citation
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.
2. Pirog-Good, Maureen A.
Teen Fathers and the Child Support Enforcement System
In: Paternity Establishment: A Public Policy Conference, Volume 2: Studies of the Circumstances of Mothers and Fathers. Madison WI: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), 1992
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Child Support; Childbearing, Adolescent; Data Quality/Consistency; Fathers, Absence; Poverty; Teenagers

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Also: Special Report #56B (August 1992), Madison WI: Institute for Research on Poverty, 1992

Institute for Research on Poverty Conference report. Enormous attention has been paid to adolescent mothers and their children. The United States has a higher rate of teen pregnancy than any other industrialized country. In 1988 alone, there were 488,941 births to women under the age of 20. If there were no adverse effects of adolescent parenting, the high incidence of teenage childbearing in the U.S. would not surface as a policy issue. Because of the high personal and social costs of teen parenting, the antecedents, consequences, and factors associated with adolescent motherhood have been widely researched. In contrast, young fathers are infrequently the focus of researchers. Knowledge of this population contains neither the breath nor depth of knowledge concerning young mothers. Currently, there are only six published studies of young fathers which use nationally representative data. Of the six, one focuses on absent fathers many of whom are in their early to mid twenties. The remaining five use outdated data, are narrowly focused, or use biased subsamples of nationally representative data. Consequently, public policies directed towards this population are made in a virtual vacuum of knowledge. However, few public policies are specifically targeted at teen fathers. To partially fill the void of knowledge concerning teen fathers, this article provides a general overview of this population. The data for the ensuing analyses are derived from two different sources. The description of the teen father population is based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experiences-Youth Cohort (NLSY). NLSY is a balanced panel which includes information on 6,403 males ages 14-21 in 1979. The second source of data is a survey mailed to the directors of Child Support Enforcement (CSE) programs and State Court administrators in eve ry state and the District of Columbia in January, 1993.

Bibliography Citation
Pirog-Good, Maureen A. "Teen Fathers and the Child Support Enforcement System" In: Paternity Establishment: A Public Policy Conference, Volume 2: Studies of the Circumstances of Mothers and Fathers. Madison WI: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), 1992
3. Pirog-Good, Maureen A.
The Family Background and Attitudes of Teen Fathers
Youth and Society 26,3 (March 1995): 351-376.
Also: http://yas.sagepub.com/content/26/3/351.abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Attitudes; Family Background and Culture; Fathers, Influence; Household Composition; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Male Sample; Poverty; Racial Differences; Self-Esteem; Sex Roles

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This article examines the family background and attitudes of adolescent fathers. A greater percentage of teen fathers than of teenagers who are not fathers come from poor and unstable households whose members are less educated. Generally speaking, for Whites, being a teenage father is associated with having a low self-esteem, an external locus of control, and conservative sex-role attitudes, whereas for Blacks, it is not. Data are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort.
Bibliography Citation
Pirog-Good, Maureen A. "The Family Background and Attitudes of Teen Fathers." Youth and Society 26,3 (March 1995): 351-376.
4. Pirog-Good, Maureen A.
Amerson, Lydia
The Long Arm of Justice: The Potential for Seizing the Assets of Child Support Obligors
Family Relations 46,1 (January 1997): 47-55.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/585606
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Child Support; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Presence; Welfare

Discusses the potential for the Child Support Enforcement program in the United States to expand its asset seizure activities by documenting the size and composition of asset portfolios of fathers who live apart from their children. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experiences-Youth Cohort; Work in return for public assistance to families. Full text available online: EBSCO.
Bibliography Citation
Pirog-Good, Maureen A. and Lydia Amerson. "The Long Arm of Justice: The Potential for Seizing the Assets of Child Support Obligors." Family Relations 46,1 (January 1997): 47-55.
5. Pirog-Good, Maureen A.
Good, David H.
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.
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.