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Explaining Child Support Trends: Economic, Demographic, and Policy Effects
This paper examines trends in the payment of child support between 1967 and 1997.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
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January 08, 2002
Financial Impact of Divorce on Children and their Families
This article looks at the economic impact of divorce on families and finds that most women and children have to deal with considerable financial declines post- divorce.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1994
Child Support Enforcement: Incentives and Well-Being
This study examines the effectiveness of stronger child support enforcement, and assesses the impact of legislation and enforcement policies on the economic well-being of single mothers.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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February 08, 2001
Custody, Access, and Child Support in Canada: Putting Children's Interests First
This consultation paper provides a forum for discussion and feedback about parenting and child support after the separation or divorce of a couple.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Department of Justice Canada
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March 01, 2001
The Child Support Program: An Investment That Works
This paper outlines the merits of the American child support system and provides evidence that it renders significant benefits to children and custodial parents.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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April 2005
You Get What You Pay For: How Federal and State Investment Decisions Affect Child Support Performance
This paper argues that the current child support system places too much emphasis on gaining a profit for the states, and does not invest enough in child support services for children and families.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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December 01, 1998
An Ounce of Prevention and a Pound of Cure: Developing a State Policy on the Payment of Child Support Arrears by Low Income Parents
This paper argues that child support payments are very important for lone mothers with low or moderate income, and demonstrates that the majority of these women receive no child support from their children's father.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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May 01, 2001
Who Pays When Paternity is Disestablished?
This paper discusses the financial implications of disestablishing paternity for parents, children, and the state.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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April 01, 2003
Child Support—an Important but Often Overlooked Issue for Low-Income Clients
This article describes the importance of child support, the child support enforcement system, the cooperation requirements for state financial assistance, and the allocation of the collected support.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Centre for Law and Social Policy
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November 01, 2002
A Look at Arrests of Low-Income Fathers for Child Support Nonpayment: Enforcement, Court, and Program Practices
This series of three papers examines the incidence of paternal arrest for child support nonpayment, the court process for fathers who are arrested for nonpayment, and programs that have had success in addressing these problems.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Family Policy and Practice
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January 2005
Joint Legal Custody and Child Support Payments: Are There Lasting Custody Effects?
This paper examines whether or not the awarding of joint legal custody after parental divorce increases child support payments both in the short and the long term.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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California Center for Population Research
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April 2001
Tackling the Human Deficit: Investing in Children & Families in Ontario
This paper discusses child poverty in Ontario and makes nine recommendations for a poverty agenda.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Campaign 2000
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February 10, 2004
Comments on the Report of the Joint Select Committee on the Operation and the Interpretation of the Family Law Act
This document contains comments and recommendations by the Family Law Council pertaining to the Family Law Act ...
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Family Law Council
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January 01, 1993
A Report From Canada's 'Gender War Zone': Reforming The Child-Related Provisions of the Divorce Act
This study looks at ways to refocus the litigation process more on children's wellbeing without overlooking concerns about spousal abuse and its effects on children.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Canadian Journal of Family Law
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August 25, 1999
Myths About Childcare Subsidies A Review of the Empirical Literature
This report looks at literature which suggests that lengthy periods of exposure to formal childcare may have negative effects on child development.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Frontier Centre for Public Policy
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January 2010
The Role of the Father After Divorce
This article discusses the importance of and challenges to creating a meaningful role for fathers after a divorce.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1994
Welfare Reform, Fertility, and Father Involvement
This article examines the unique role that fathers play in their children's lives, and demonstrates that public policies have considerable influence on childbearing patterns and a father's involvement with his children.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Future of Children
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2002
The Effect of Child Support on Welfare Exits and Re-entries
This paper demonstrates that child support payments effectively enable many young mothers to stay off of welfare.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Family and Demographic Research
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September 2000
Child Support Distribution and Disbursement
This report reviews the changes to child support distribution that came as a result of the 1996 welfare reform laws in the United States.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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October 01, 2000
Low-Income Fathers and Child Support: Starting Off on the Right Track
This paper examines the importance of child support in single-parent families, major problems of the child support system, and ways in which state programs can improve the situation.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Policy Studies Inc.
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January 01, 2003
Patterns of Child Support Compliance in Wisconsin
This paper looks at individual changes in child support compliance over a five-year period and discusses the differences between divorced and never-married fathers.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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April 01, 1997
Child Support Enforcement and Domestic Violence among Non-Cohabiting Couples
This paper examines the relationship between state policies on the enforcement of child support orders and the risk of domestic violence among parents who are not living together.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
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Revised October 2003
Support Services for Incarcerated and Released Non-Custodial Parents
This paper discusses the challenges faced by incarcerated and newly released non-custodial parents who are expected to continue to make child support payments.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Welfare Information Network
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June 01, 2000
Family Mediation Canada Consultation on Custody, Access and Child Support
This report summarizes survey feedback from mediators regarding their perceptions of and suggestions on custody, access, and federal child support guidelines.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Department of Justice Canada
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2001
Child Custody, Access and Parental Responsibility: The Search for a Just and Equitable Standard
This paper argues that custody battles post divorce must serve the best needs of children involved through parental responsibility, not through fighting for the rights of either parent.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Father Involvement Research Alliance
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December 2008
Child and Spousal Support: Maintenance Enforcement Survey Statistics 2006/2007
This report examines the characteristics of cases registered with Maintenance Enforcement Programs, a series of provincially based programs that provide administrative support to payors and recipients of child and spousal support.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada
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March 2008
The Voice of the Child in Divorce, Custody, and Access Proceedings
This paper suggests ways that the provincial and federal governments can give children a greater voice in divorce, custody and access proceedings.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Department of Justice Canada
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2002
Models for Safe Child Support Enforcement
This paper presents strategies for enforcing child support payments in situations in which the mother is a victim of domestic violence.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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October 01, 1999
Key Determinants of Mothers' Decisions to Allow Visits With Non-Custodial Fathers
This study examined the frequency of father-child contact and child support payments after the dissolution of a non-marital relationship to determine which factors made mothers more likely to allow fathers access to their children.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Mens Studies Press
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March 22, 2004
Child Support Enforcement and Father Involvement for Children in Never-Married Mother Families
This study examines the relationship between fathers' child support payments and their involvement in their children's lives.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Mens Studies Press
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January 1, 2006
The Changing Role of Child Support among Never-Married Mothers
This paper shows that more never-married mothers are receiving child support than were in the past, although it continues to be relatively uncommon.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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October 01, 1999
The Politics of Fatherhood
This article outlines the statistics regarding fatherlessness and provides ...
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Political Science and Politics
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December 2002
Investing in Quality Child Care: An Agenda for Action on Child Poverty
This paper focuses on child poverty in Ontario, and assesses the strategies undertaken by the government in tackling child poverty.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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2003
Making Ends Meet: Six Programs that Help Working Families and Employers
This paper reviews six programs intended to support working families: the Earned Income Tax Credit, food stamps, child care, health care, child support, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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June 01, 2002
21 Million Children's Health: Our Shared Responsibility
This report discusses the problem of inadequate health care insurance for low-income children in single parent families, analyses the existing system, and recommends integrating health care coverage with the child support system.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor
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June 2000
Custody, Access, and Child Support: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
This report examines custody and living arrangements, access to the non-custodial parent, and the availability of child support for children of separated parents in Canada.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Department of Justice Canada
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1999
Custody, Access, and Child Support in Canada: Report on Federal-Provincial-Territorial Consultations
From April 2001 to June 2001, the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Family Law Committee asked for feedback on how the government could improve the laws and services it provided for children of separation and divorce.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Department of Justice Canada
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Fall 2001
Bill-41, An Act to amend the Divorce Act, Evidence presented to the Standing Committee on Justice and Law
This page contains the minutes to a Justice Committee meeting in which ‘expert’ witnesses provide input on Bill C-41.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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House of Commons
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October 22, 1996
Selected Statistics on Canadian Families and Family Law
This paper contains information on families in Canada, characteristics of those families, and information on family law topics such as marriage, divorce, support awards, payment of child support, and custody and access.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Department of Justice Canada
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2000
Motherhood, Fatherhood: The Legal Balance
This article discusses the needs of children and parents within a divorce.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Australian Institute of Family Studies
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December 1991
Federation of Law Societies of Canada Consultation on Child Support Guidelines and Custody and Access
This paper offers an evaluation of family law by way of a summary of survey questionnaires and workshops provided to lawyers and judges involved in divorce and child custody cases.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Department of Justice Canada
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2001
Court Affirms Natural Basis for Family: Johnson-Steeves v. Lee, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, Action No. 9501 03160
This paper summarizes and comments on a case in which a woman claimed she did not have to provide a father access to his son because she became pregnant with the intention that the father would not be involved in the son’s life.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Centre for Cultural Renewal
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May 27, 1997
The Interaction of Child Support and TANF: Evidence from Samples of Current and Former Welfare Recipients
This paper examines the relationship between child support and welfare receipt, with a particular focus on the potential role of child support in enabling single mothers to leave welfare and attain self-sufficiency.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
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January 2005
Child Support Policy Concepts and Proposals That Will Impact Poor Families
This brief describes proposed changes to child support laws being considered by the American government in 2001.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy
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May 2001
Dollars and Sense: Improving the Determination of Child Support Obligations for Low-Income Mothers, Fathers, and Children
This report discusses the legal and policy context in which child support awards are set, reviewed, and adjusted.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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National Women's Law Center, Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy
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2002
The Effect of Child Support and Criminal Justice Systems on Low-Income Noncustodial Parents: When You Need a Safety Net, but There’s Only a Dragnet
This report explores the experiences of low-income, non-custodial fathers with the child support and criminal justice systems.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Family Policy and Practice (formerly the Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy)
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June 2004
Health Care Coverage Among Child Support-Eligible Children
This report examines the characteristics of children living with their mothers who are eligible for child support, and analyses the extent to which they have access to health care insurance.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation
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December 2002
State Practices in Medical Child Support Cross-Program Coordination
This report examines state efforts to integrate child support enforcement programs, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and Medicaid to ensure optimal health care coverage for children in low-income families.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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June 2003
Characteristics of Families Using Title IV-D Services in 1999 and 2001
This report examines the characteristics of single-parent families who used the child support enforcement system in 1999 and 2001.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Office of Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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October 2004
Child Support Policy Concepts and Proposals that Will Impact Poor Families
This policy brief describes proposed changes to child support legislation in the United States and discusses the effects that these changes would have on low-income families.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy
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May 2001
State Policy Choices: Child Support
This report provides statistical information pertaining to state differences in child support policy and enforcement in the United States.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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September 2004
Street Culture Kidz
This article assesses community safety and crime prevention based on efforts to foster the healthy, secure, and prosocial development of children and youth.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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October 01, 2000
What do Fathers Contribute to Children's Well-Being?
This paper explores the relationship between father involvement and children's social, cognitive, and educational outcomes.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Child Trends
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May 01, 1999
Legal Services Commission Annual Report 2001/02
This paper discusses the Commission's concerns over the continuing rise in family and social welfare law costs, as well as its objectives to help families and children get quality legal services and access to justice.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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TSO (The Stationery Office)
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July 10, 2003
Child Support and The Media
This paper discusses child support: its purpose, effect, and representation in the media.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Family Policy and Practice
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2001
Broke But Not Deadbeat: Reconnecting Low-Income Fathers and Children
This paper examines the characteristics of low-income, non-resident fathers and demonstrates that they are often unable to pay child support.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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National Conference of State Legislatures
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July 1999
Redesigning the Welfare Mix for Families: Policy Challenges
This paper addresses the need for changes to the welfare policies in response to deepening poverty, an ageing society, restructured labor markets, and a knowledge based economy.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Canadian Policy Research Networks
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February 2003
Knowledge of Child Support Policy Rules: How Little We Know
This study of participants in a child support and welfare demonstration in Wisconsin reveals that many individuals have limited knowledge of child support policies and rules that pertain to them.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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April 2005
Multiple-Partner Fertility: Incidence and Implications for Child Support Policy
This paper documents the prevalence of multi-partnered fertility among welfare recipients in the United States and discusses its implications for child support and welfare policies.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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May 2005
The Impact of Child Support on Fertility, Parental Investments and Child Well-being
This paper suggests that strict child support enforcement policies lead men to have fewer nonmarital births.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
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April 11 2004
Child Support Liability and Partnership Dissolution
This paper provides evidence that increasing child support liability for non-custodial parents significantly reduces rates of parental divorce and separation in the United Kingdom.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies
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July 22, 2004
Child Support and TANF Interaction: Literature Review
This report reviews existing literature on the role of child support payments in enabling welfare-reliant families to attain self-sufficiency.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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April 11, 2003
Bay Area Fatherhood Initiatives: Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives on Integrating Fathering Efforts
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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National Center on Fathers and Families (NCOFF), University of Pennsylvania
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2003
Ottawa Should Expand the Canada Child Tax Benefit
This presentation to the Commons Subcommittee on Children and Youth at Risk critiques the Canada Child Tax Benefits as a form to build a strong income support and security system for Canadian families.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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June 06, 2001
INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
This United Nations Resolution goes further than recognizing the rights of the individual and the "Human Family".
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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December 16, 1966
The Absence of Father: Effects on Children's Development and Family Functioning
This article aims to examine the long term effect on children due to the father's absence.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The National Center on Fathers and Families
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August 01, 1995
Do Non-Resident Fathers Who Pay Child Support Visit Their Children More?
This paper examines the relationship between enforced child support payments and increased father involvement and visitation.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Urban Institute
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March 01, 2002
Child Support Enforcement: How Well is it Doing?
This paper explores the issue of child support and looks specifically at parental views on payment, and on the government's role in enforcement.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Urban Institute
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December 01, 1999
Demographic Change, Children's Families, and Child Support Policy in the United States
This paper discusses the fact that many children do not live with their biological parents and criticizes reforms to the child support system that emphasize biological ties over social ties.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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June 01, 1994
A Look at Poor Dads Who Don't Pay Child Support
This paper examines the socio-economic, employment, and financial characteristics of nonresident fathers and the barriers that they face in paying child support.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Urban Institute
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September 01, 2000
Child Support and Children's Well-Being
This article looks at the economic disadvantages of children who live with only one biological parent, and focuses on issues pertaining to child custody and support.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars
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April 04, 2001
Low Income Measures, (LIMs), 1997
This report presents detailed Low Income Measures (LIM) data based on a low-income measure of family income, and discusses employment, poverty, and family needs.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Statistics Canada
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August 01, 1999
Federal Expenditures on Children: 1960-1997
This paper assesses the federal expenditure on eight major budget categories aiding children: tax credits and exemptions, income security, nutrition, health, education, housing, social service, and training.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Urban Institute
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April 01, 2001
African American Men, Inequality and Family Structure: A Research Note
This paper suggests that African-American family disintegration, including poverty and father absence, is attributable to racial inequality.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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National Center on Fathers and Families
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December 01, 1998
Measuring social progress, starting with the well-being of Canada's children, youth and families
This presentation addresses how Canada measures its social progress and defines poverty.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Canadian Council on Social Development
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November 25, 1996
Making Fathers Count: Assessing the Progress of Responsible Fatherhood Efforts
This paper reviews past studies done on fatherhood and the impact of father absence on the well-being and development of children.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation
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2002
Support From Both Parents
This paper looks at the need for both parents in single-parent families to financially support their children.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Children's Defense Fund
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October 01, 2002
Fathers’ Involvement in Permanency Planning and Child Welfare Casework: Literature Review
This paper provides an in-depth look at existing information on non-custodial fathers and the extent to which they are involved in the child welfare system.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Urban Institute
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August 01, 2002
Perceived Fairness and Compliance with Child Support Obligations
This study of divorced fathers in Wisconsin investigates whether or not their perception of the fairness of their child support order affects the likelihood that they will pay.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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November 01, 1997
Policy Reforms are Needed to Increase Child Support from Poor Fathers
This paper provides a profile of poor, nonresident fathers who are unable to pay child support, and argues that the government could do more to enable them to provide for their families.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Urban Institute
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April 01, 2002
Chartier v. Chartier, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 242
This court decision aims to answer one main question: can a spouse, who has assumed the role of parent to his/her partner's child, unilaterally withdraw from that role after the union has ended in divorce.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Canada Legal Information Institute
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January 28, 1999
Child Support and the Postdivorce Economic Well-Being of Mothers, Fathers, and Children
This paper looks at the short-term financial situation of family members after a marital breakup.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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December 01, 1998
Interaction Effects of a Child Tax Credit, National Health Insurance, and Assured Child Support
This paper argues that if the government offered all families child tax credits, national health insurance, and assured child support, the result would be a dramatic reduction in poverty and welfare dependency.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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December 01, 1994
Architecture for National Child Care
This paper analyzes the Canadian Child Care system by outlining the necessary improvements required in order to meet the demands of a changing nation.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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November 01, 2002
Legal Services Commission Annual Report 2001/02
This paper discusses the Community Legal Service program, which improves access to justice for those most in need, such as families and children.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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TSO (The Stationery Office)
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July 22, 2002
Health Insurance and Child Support
This paper discusses efforts to include health insurance as part of the child support package, and concludes that many non-custodial fathers of uninsured children cannot afford to pay for health coverage.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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September 01, 1994
Income in Canada, 1999
This is the latest edition of an annual ...
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Statistics Canada
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June 01, 2000
Child Care by Default or Design? An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets
This study explores the issue of the operation of child care programs, and considers the pros and cons in giving the public the operational responsibilities over child care.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Childcare Resource and Research Unit, University of Toronto
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October 01, 2002
To What Extent Are Canadians Exposed to Low-Income?
This article discusses the probability of visible minority groups who are exposed to Low-Income; it analyses the percentage of individuals with low-income during 1993-1996.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Statistics Canada
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March 01, 1999
Child Support Gains Some Ground
This paper briefly addresses the increases in child support payments by fathers in low-income, single-parent families since the 1996 welfare reform.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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The Urban Institute
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October 01, 2003
Compliance with Child Support Orders in Divorce Cases
This study provides information about the correlation between paternal income and the likelihood of compliance with child support orders.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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September 01, 1994
Child Care Conference [Final Report]
This paper summarizes the findings and conclusion for the conference on child care.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Canadian Policy Research Networks
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October 01, 2002
Child Support Enforcement for Teenage Fathers: Problems and Prospects
This paper discusses the impact and likelihood of parental absence and failure to provide child support among teenage fathers.
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Category:
Children > Child Support
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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February 01, 1994
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