Nonresident Fathers and Formal Child Support: Evidence from the CPS, NSFG, and SIPP

Stykes, J. Bart; Manning, Wendy D.; Brown, Susan L.

doi:10.4054/demres.2013.29.46

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“…Families often cross household boundaries, for example in 2009 40% of children were not living with both biological parents [52]. To assess child well-being it is important to understand the levels of social contact and financial support by nonresident parents, but surveys have varied in their success in identifying nonresident fathers measurement [30, 90]. In addition, support to young adults as well as aging parents is often provided by family members living outside the household.…”

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“…Further, child and adult responses to family membership are not uniformly consistent [13]. Finally, not all members of the family are equally knowledgeable about the family histories and experiences of all household members (e.g., nonresident parenthood or dates of union formation and dissolution) [90]. …”

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“…Questions asked about residence of children can be established in fertility histories and household rosters to determine whether respondents are nonresident parents. The quality of data on nonresident fatherhood depends on the household reporter or individual based sampling strategy as well as the order of questions [86, 90]. Custodial mothers more often report a child with a nonresident parent than men report being noncustodial parents [90].…”

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“…The quality of data on nonresident fatherhood depends on the household reporter or individual based sampling strategy as well as the order of questions [86, 90]. Custodial mothers more often report a child with a nonresident parent than men report being noncustodial parents [90]. Surveys relying on a household head to identify nonresident fathers report lower levels of nonresident fatherhood in part because about 60% of the time in SIPP or CPS the head is providing proxy reports of nonresident fatherhood.…”

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Family formation processes: Assessing the need for a new nationally representative household panel survey in the United States

Manning¹

2015

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The American family has undergone rapid transformation. Careful measurement attention to family formation is important because families are at the heart of numerous decisions, roles, and responsibilities with implications for understanding the well-being of families, adults and children. This paper considers whether there is a need for a new household panel study that addresses family formation. This paper consists of a review of the recent body of population-based, American surveys and finds a considerable gap in the ability to study the implications of families for the health and well-being of Americans. Earlier panel surveys used to assess family life anchored questions around marital events, but changes in family patterns require attention to a more diverse set of family forms. The paper concludes with recommendations for a multi-purpose panel study. The key challenge is to keep to pace with complexity and changes in American family life while at the same time maintaining a parsimonious set of survey questions.

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Section: Why Is the Study Of Family Formation Processes Significant?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Data Should Be Collected To Assess Family Formation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Data Should Be Collected To Assess Family Formation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Data Should Be Collected To Assess Family Formation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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2015

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“…A nonresident father is a father who does not live in the same household as his child (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000). Recently collected data suggest an estimated 12% of all men in the United States aged 15-44 years have at least one nonresident child (Stykes et al 2013).…”

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“Hey Dad, I just wanna say hello”: Digital Leisure among Nonresident Fathers

Sharaievska

Hodge

2018

Int J Sociol Leis

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Geographical separation of nonresident fathers from their children creates multiple constraints to their involvement with their children. Many interactions nonresident parents in the United States have with their children occur in a leisure context. Therefore, mobile technology and digital leisure may mitigate limitations associated with fathers' nonresidency. This study presents findings from eight interviews with African-American and Caucasian nonresident fathers about the use of digital leisure in their fathering. Findings from this study suggest that nonresident fathers both dislike and appreciate use of mobile technology by their children. Moreover, digital leisure and mobile technology represent a part of their generative fathering practices, and appear to have some symbolic meaning in their construction of fatherhood. We further discuss these findings in the context of social justice issues associated with fathering.

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Child Support and the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansions

Bullinger¹

2020

J Policy Anal Manage

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A quickly developing literature has shown that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansions have improved health insurance coverage, health, and financial well‐being among low‐income adults without dependent children. This population includes noncustodial parents. With substantial overlap in the population that is typically obligated to pay child support and the population that has strongly benefited from the expansions, there may be potential implications for child support enforcement. In this paper, I examine the effect of public health insurance eligibility to low‐income adults on child support outcomes. I find that the ACA Medicaid expansions increased child support distributed to custodial families as arrears by 8.5 percent. Evidence also suggests current support distributions increased by about 2 percent. There were no significant effects on paying toward a child support order. Among unmarried mothers, the likelihood of child support receipt increased by 8 percent. These results imply that access to public health insurance can increase the ability of noncustodial parents to pay child support.

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Nonresident Fathers and Formal Child Support: Evidence from the CPS, NSFG, and SIPP

Cited by 19 publications

References 39 publications

Family formation processes: Assessing the need for a new nationally representative household panel survey in the United States

Family formation processes: Assessing the need for a new nationally representative household panel survey in the United States

“Hey Dad, I just wanna say hello”: Digital Leisure among Nonresident Fathers

Child Support and the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansions

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