Contents
Contributors
Conference Participants
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan, Daniel R. Meyer, and Judith A. Seltzer
Part I. What Are the Policies and Who Are the Fathers?
Chapter 1. A Brief History of Child Support Policies in the United States / Irwin Garfinkel, Daniel R. Meyer, and Sara S. McLanahan
Chapter 2. A Patchwork Portrait of Nonresident Fathers / Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan, and Thomas L. Hanson
Part II. How Does Child Support Enforcement Affect Fathers?
Chapter 3. The Effect of Child Support on the Economic Status of Nonresident Fathers / Daniel R. Meyer
Chapter 4. Does Child Support Enforcement Policy Affect Male Labor Supply? / Richard B. Freeman and Jane Waldfogel
Chapter 5. Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility / David E. Bloom, Cecilia Conrad, and Cynthia Miller
Chapter 6. Will Child Support Enforcement Increase Father-Child Contact and Parental Conflict After Separation? / Judith A. Seltzer, Sara S. McLanahan, and Thomas L. Hanson
Chapter 7. The Effects of Stronger Child Support Enforcement on Nonmarital Fertility / Anne Case
Part III. Should We Do More to Help Fathers?
Chapter 8. Programs to Increase Fathers' Access to Their Children / Jessica Pearson and Nancy Thoennes
Chapter 9. Low-Income Parents and the Parents' Fair Share Program: An Early Qualitative Look at Improving the Ability and Desire of Low-Income Noncustodial Parents to Pay Child Support / Earl S. Johnson and Fred Doolittle
Chapter 10. How Should We Think About Child Support Obligations? / Martha Minow
Conclusion / Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan, Daniel R. Meyer, and Judith A. Seltzer
Index