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During the 1980s, the issue of child support emerged on the
national agenda. Federal and state governments in the United States
focused on the private obligations of parents to support their
children, strengthening existing child support laws and
establishing new ones. In this book, Andrea H. Beller and John W.
Graham discuss what went right and what went wrong with child
support payments during this period, investigating the
socioeconomic and legal factors that determined child support
awards and receipts, documenting why few gains were made in child
support overall during the 1980s, and offering policy
recommendations for the future. Analyzing Census Bureau data on
child support awards and receipts beginning in 1979, Beller and
Graham find that there were some minor improvements in the system
and that these were due to changes in the legal and social
environment surrounding child support. However, say the authors,
many problems persist: the real value of child support awards and
receipts has declined sharply, and black and never-married mothers,
despite making some gains, continue to fare worse in the process
than do non-black and previously married mothers. The authors
evaluate the effectiveness of new federally mandated child support
enforcement techniques and guidelines by focusing on how such laws
worked in states that had them prior to the federal mandate. They
also look for the first time at the indirect consequences of child
support, showing how it affects mothers' decisions about work,
welfare, and remarriage and their children's decisions about
continuing their education.
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