Recent research consistently reports that persistent poverty has more detrimental effects on
IQ, school achievement, and socioemotional functioning than transitory poverty, with …

What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of
restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers and others struggle to …

Recent revisions in child support and paternity establishment legislation enacted under the
1996 welfare reform act, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation …

Providing as a form of paternal involvement is not readily acknowledged in contemporary
fatherhood literature. Providing is often overlooked because it is taken for granted, is …

We present a biosocial model of human male parental care that allows male parental
allocations to be influenced not only by changes in the fitness (welfare) of the recipient …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of e-government usage on
citizen engagement during the COVID-19 crisis in China, in relation to the mediating role of …

Much has been written and debated on lone mothers. However little has been discussed
about non-resident fathers. Absent Fathers is part of a growing literature on men and …

The major goal of this chapter is to illuminate the dynamic relation between programs for
poor children and families on the one hand, and theoretical and empirical work in the field of …

Using the 1994–1998 waves of the Current Population Survey—Child Support Supplement
(N= 5,387), the aims of this study are to document child support obligation rates of …

This article documents patterns and correlates of child support compliance among fathers of
welfare recipients in Wisconsin. We introduce the concept of discretionary obligors (because …