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Title: The Effects of the Child Support Provisions of the Family Support Act of 1988 on Child Well-Being
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1. Garfinkel, Irwin
McLanahan, Sara S.
The Effects of the Child Support Provisions of the Family Support Act of 1988 on Child Well-Being
Population Research and Policy Review 9,3 (September 1990): 205-234.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v26552545p2445v2/
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Keyword(s): Child Support; Children; Children, Well-Being; Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction; Well-Being

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A review of the history of the child support system in the US, the role of the Family Support Act of 1988, and empirical research on children from disrupted families and children born out of wedlock. Potential consequences of the 1988 law--eg, increases in child support payments, in father-child contact, and in parent-parent contact with possible conflict--are discussed. A model for evaluating child support reform is developed, and it is emphasized that a critical problem will be to identify, over time, other variables that may affect the seven outcome variables identified. Advantages of utilizing and supplementing existing nationally representative data sets such as the Child Support Supplements to the March Current Populations Survey, the National Survey of Families and Households, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, are explicated. 1 Figure, 65 References. (Copyright 1991, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
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Garfinkel, Irwin and Sara S. McLanahan. "The Effects of the Child Support Provisions of the Family Support Act of 1988 on Child Well-Being." Population Research and Policy Review 9,3 (September 1990): 205-234.