Better Child Support Enforcement: Can it Reduce Teenage Premarital Childbearing?

Author: Robert Plotnick, Irwin Garfinkel, Daniel Gaylin, Sara McLanahan, Inhoe Ku Publisher: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Publication: Working Paper #99-01 Document Date:                  October 01, 1999 Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Fatherhood Related Categories: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Motherhood Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Pregnancy Children > Child Support Parenthood/Childrearing > Child support Parenthood/Childrearing > Fatherhood Parenthood/Childrearing > Unwed Mothers Public Policy > Family   This study finds that states which have strict child support enforcements have fewer teenage births.  It suggests that, by raising the cost of fatherhood, these states have provided an effective disincentive to teenage childbearing. Click to read this article... (PDF) Send us feedback on this article Bookmark this link