Fathers' Fair Share: Helping Poor Men Manage Child Support and Fatherhood

by Fred C. Doolittle, Ann Levine, Earl S. Johnson Jr.

One of the most challenging goals for welfare reformers has been improving the collection of child support payments from noncustodial parents, usually fathers. Often vilified as deadbeats who have dropped out of their children's lives, these fathers have been the target of largely punitive enforcement policies that give little consideration to the complex circumstances of these men's lives. Fathers' Fair Share presents an alternative to these measures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871544113
• ISBN13: 9780871544117
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"