Parenting and Providing [electronic resource] : The Impact of Parents' Fair Share on Paternal Involvement / Virginia Knox and Cindy Redcross.
The Parents' Fair Share (PFS) Demonstration, a multi-site national project, tested a new approach to child support enforcement for low-income noncustodial parents (NCPs). Findings were drawn on survey responses of 2,005 custodial parents, mothers of children for whom NCPs owed child support. Th...
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| Summary: | The Parents' Fair Share (PFS) Demonstration, a multi-site national project, tested a new approach to child support enforcement for low-income noncustodial parents (NCPs). Findings were drawn on survey responses of 2,005 custodial parents, mothers of children for whom NCPs owed child support. The sample was randomly assigned to a program group, subject to mandatory participation in PFS, or a control group not eligible for PFS services. Key findings indicated low-income NCPs targeted by the PFS program had widely varying levels of involvement with their children; NCPs in the PFS program group were more likely to provide formal child support; and PFS did not change the likelihood that NCPs would provide informal support, but led to a small reduction in the average value of informal support given. Analysis of PFS impacts by subgroups suggested future programs can reduce the likelihood that NCPs will cut back on their informal contributions by taking these two steps: (1) increasing earnings capacity of the most disadvantaged NCPs; and (2) developing innovative ways to encourage fathers to maintain informal support. PFS did not increase the amount of contact fathers had with their children, but increased fathers' efforts to engage in active parenting, increased frequency of discussions about the child among parents with the youngest children, and increased the likelihood of visits for NCPs with no high school credential. (Appendixes contain additional tables and 33 references.) (YLB) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED448267. Availability: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, 16 East 34 Street, New York, New York 10016, Tel: 212-532-3200, Web site: http://www.mdrc.org ($12). For full text: http://www.mdrc.org/Reports2000/Parents'FairShare/Parenting&Providing.pdf. Sponsoring Agency: Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsoring Agency: Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI. Sponsoring Agency: Mott (C.S.) Foundation, Flint, MI. Sponsoring Agency: Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Sponsoring Agency: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD. Sponsoring Agency: Department of Labor, Washington, DC. Sponsoring Agency: Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc., Greensboro, NC. Sponsoring Agency: Ford Foundation, New York, NY. Sponsoring Agency: McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN. Sponsoring Agency: Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, MN. Sponsoring Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. ERIC Note: Based on research conducted for the Parents' Fair Share Demonstration project. For a related project document, see CE 081 002. Dissemination of MDRC's work is supported by the Ford, Ambrose Monell, Alcoa, and James Irvine Foundations. Also supported by The Arco, Grable, Ewing Marion Kauffman, and Union Carbide Foundations, and the Open Society Institute. |
| Physical Description: | 129 pages. |