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Title: Child Support Enforcement for Teenage Fathers: Problems and Prospects
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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. |