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Child Well-Being and Noncustodial Fathers (Paperback)
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Child Well-Being and Noncustodial Fathers (Paperback)
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The structure of a family plays an important role in children's
well-being. A contributing factor to the high rates of child
poverty over the long-term, and the increase in child poverty
during the period from 2001-2007, was the increasing likelihood of
children living in families headed by a single female. In 2012,
about one-third of all children lived in families without their
biological father present. According to some estimates, about 50%
of children (who are currently under age 18) will spend or have
spent a significant portion of their childhood in a home without
their biological father. In 2011, the poverty rate for children
living in female-headed families (usually headed by a single
mother) was 48%, compared to 11% for children living in
married-couple families. Policies enacted in the mid-1990s focused
on moving single mothers from the welfare rolls to work; with these
policies in place and the economic expansion of the late 1990s,
child poverty rates fell. However, these gains in the economic
well-being of children were limited and temporary, as child poverty
increased again in the 2000s, even before the onset of the
recession that spanned from December 2007 to June 2009. An option
to improve the well-being of children living in single-mother
families is to seek greater financial and social contributions from
fathers, particularly noncustodial fathers. However, the ability of
noncustodial fathers to support their children has been complicated
by certain economic and social trends. Over the past three decades,
changes in the labor market have led to less employment and lower
typical wages for men. The wages of men with lower levels of
educational attainment have fallen since the mid-1970s. Criminal
justice policies have changed, leading to increases in the rate of
incarceration of men. These trends, while affecting all racial and
ethnic groups, had a disproportionate impact on African American
men. The most recent recession has hit men's employment hard; and
it has hit employment of young, African American men particularly
hard. Although social science research and analysis acknowledge a
father's influence on the overall well-being of his children,
federal welfare programs have to a large extent minimized or
underplayed the role of fathers in the lives of children.
Noncustodial fathers and other men are largely invisible to these
programs as clients or recipients. They become visible only in
their role as family income producers (e.g., payers of child
support). Other federal programs and/or systems that have included
many men on their rolls (such as employment and training programs
and the criminal justice system) have not fully addressed the
unique needs and circumstances of fathers, particularly those who
do not have custody of their children. The potential for revisions
to the tax code in 2013 raises the issue of whether policies to
"make work pay" for low-wage earners-an important part of the
welfare reforms of the 1990s for custodial parents-could be
extended to noncustodial parents. Additional potential policy
options might include examining strategies for reducing child
support arrearages; changing the financing structure of Child
Support Enforcement (CSE) access and visitation programs for
noncustodial parents; enhancing or expanding job training and
education programs to assist low-income men and youth, which in
turn can help them in providing for their (current or future)
families; and redefining eligibility for certain programs so that
disadvantaged young adults can receive more holistic training and
other services that can better prepare them for adulthood.
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