Fathers Under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement

by Judith A. Seltzer

"This important and highly informative collection of studies on nonresidentfathers and child support should be of great value to scholars and policymakers alike." --American Journal of Sociology Over half of America's children will live apart from their fathers at some point as they grow up, many in the single-mother households that increasingly make up the nation's poor. Federal efforts to improve the collection of child support from fathers appear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871543036
• ISBN13: 9780871543035
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

This book focuses a great deal of research on Fathers.

This book, unlike most other books which blindly focus on independent aspects of poverty and well being, succeeds in bringing together a pool of information on Fathers. I found the writing articulate and the information at worst a honed compilation of all research on the topic, and at best an excellent resource for all in the field of population studies.