Child Support Enforcement Reform: Can It Reduce the Welfare Dependency of Families of Never-Married Mothers?
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Irp Discussion Papers Child Support Enforcement Reform: Can It Reduce the Welfare Dependency of Families of Never-married Mothers?
Among all groups of single-parent families, those created by a birth to an unmarried woman have the least likelihood of receiving child support and the greatest risk of becoming dependent on welfare. The child support enforcement programs have not pursued fathers of nevermarried mothers on the grounds that efforts to establish paternity and collect child support will not prove cost effective. D...
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