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Garasky, Steven Peters, H. Elizabeth Argys, Laura M. Cook, Steven T. Nepomnyaschy, Lenna Sorensen, Elaine Waller, Maureen |
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Nonresident Parenting: Measuring Support Provided to Children by Nonresident Fathers Presented: Bethesda, MD, Measurement Issues in Family Demography Workshop, November 2003. Also: http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/mifd/papers/argys.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Maryland Population Research Center Keyword(s): Child Support; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Gathering data from parents living separately presents many unique challenges. For example, often it is difficult to locate both parents and when they are interviewed, they tend to provide different accounts of the nonresident parent?s involvement with the same child. Further, family and household configurations are complicated by the addition of new relationships (e.g. step-relationships) that evolve over time and the dynamic nature of the residential patterns of children who often reside with different parents at different times of the year or at different times in their childhood. Within this challenging context the authors of this paper examine the support provided by nonresident parents (specifically fathers due to data limitations) to their children who live elsewhere. Specifically, we focus on how questions related to support provision are asked and what results are found. We examine eight separate data sets: six survey-based data sets, one a compilation of data from court records, and an extract of data from administrative records of a state public assistance program. The overriding objective of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of current data gathering approaches in this area. Our goal is to provide insights into ways we can improve our surveys in this important area of family demography. |
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Garasky, Steven, H. Elizabeth Peters, Laura M. Argys, Steven T. Cook, Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Elaine Sorensen and Maureen Waller. "Nonresident Parenting: Measuring Support Provided to Children by Nonresident Fathers." Presented: Bethesda, MD, Measurement Issues in Family Demography Workshop, November 2003. |