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Three Studies on Family Well-being and Child Support

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Page : 222 pages

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Release : 2015

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This dissertation examines the effects of child support on the wellbeing of custodial-mother families. In the first study I examine whether child support affects the labor supply of custodial mothers participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. I use data from the Wisconsin Child Support Demonstration Evaluation (CSDE). Unlike previous nonexperimental research, I do not find any negative effect of child support on the likelihood of working for pay and hours worked of custodial mothers. Recent U.S. social welfare policies have focused on increasing both custodial mothers' child support collections and their labor supply. The results suggest that these may be compatible policies; the absence of a negative labor supply effect strengthens the potential antipoverty effectiveness of child support. In the second and third studies I focus on the associations of child support with outcomes that are likely to affect the economic wellbeing of children in custodial-mother families as adults. In the second study I use the Colombian Quality of Life Survey to study the role of child support on food insecurity. Multivariate analyses show that families receiving child support are less likely to experience inadequate consumption of food. This association is particularly concentrated among single-mother families and families headed by younger mothers. Overall, these results suggest that policies that increase child support receipt in less-developed countries like Colombia are likely to decrease food insecurity among custodial-mother families. In the third study I use the Colombian Longitudinal Survey of Wealth, Income, Labor and Land (ELCA) to examine the association of child support with child chronic malnutrition. I use different approaches in order to minimize bias for unobserved heterogeneity between children who receive and do not receive child support, including probit regressions with extensive controls and propensity score matching techniques. Results suggest that child support is negatively associated with chronic malnutrition among young children in urban Colombia. Children who benefit from this transfer are between 8 and 10 percentage points less likely to experience chronic malnutrition.



Parenting Matters

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 525 pages

File Size : 31,78 MB

Release : 2016-11-21

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0309388570

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Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.



Family and Child Well-being After Welfare Reform

Author : Douglas Besharov

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 33,68 MB

Release : 2017-07-05

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1351520504

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Since their historic high in 1994, welfare caseloads in the United States have dropped an astounding 59 percent--more than 5 million fewer families receive welfare. Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform, now in paperback, explores how low-income children and their families are faring in the wake of welfare reform. Contributors to the volume include leading social researchers. Can existing surveys and other data be used to measure trends in the area? What key indicators should be tracked? What are the initial trends after welfare reform? What other information or approaches would be helpful? The book covers a broad range of topics: an update on welfare reform (Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis); ongoing major research (Peter H. Rossi); material well-being, such as earnings, benefits, and consumption (Richard Bavier); family versus household (Wendy D. Manning); fatherhood, cohabitation, and marriage (Wade F. Horn); teenage sex, pregnancy, and nonmarital births (Isabel V. Sawhill); child maltreatment and foster care (Richard J. Gelles); homelessness and housing (John C. Weicher); child health and well-being (Lorraine V. Klerman); nutrition, food security, and obesity (Harold S. Beebout); crime, juvenile delinquency, and dysfunctional behavior (Lawrence W. Sherman); drug use (Peter Reuter); mothers' work and child care (Julia B. Isaacs); and the activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Don Winstead and Ann McCormick). When welfare reform was first debated, many people feared that it would hurt the poor, especially children. The contributors find little evidence to suggest this has occurred. As time limits and other programmatic requirements take hold, more information will be needed to assess the condition of low-income families after welfare reform. This informative volume establishes a baseline for that assessment.



Child Support and Child Well-being

Author : Irwin Garfinkel

Publisher : The Urban Insitute

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 44,6 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780877666264

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Living Arrangements, Child Support, and Child Wellbeing

Author : Fely Vanessa Ríos Salas

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,49 MB

Release : 2017

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Empirical evidence for several developed countries suggests that children live with only one biological parent are particularly likely to experience economic disadvantages, and that child support plays a significant role ameliorating these difficulties. The three empirical essays presented in this dissertation present distinct aspects of single parenthood and their association with children's education and poverty in the United States and South American countries. Chapter 2 uses unique longitudinal administrative data to examine the relationship between nonresident fathers' formal child support, established through a legal agreement, and children's reading and math test scores in the US. This study finds that formal support is positively associated with eighth-graders' test scores. However, small contributions, particularly those below the median, are not significantly linked to children's scores. The findings also indicate that formal support is more important for low-income children's achievement than for their economically advantaged peers. Chapter 3 studies the association between living arrangements and children's math and reading test scores across five South American countries: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay. Using cross-sectional data from 2013, I find that living in an extended household benefits children from single-parent families but not their peers from two-parent families. Children in extended households experience larger educational disadvantages in Chile and Uruguay, where this type of arrangement has not been historically common, than in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Chapter 4 uses data from the National Household Surveys from the period 2011-2015 to explore the role of child support in the economic well-being of Peruvian children, differentiating between urban and rural areas. The results indicate that child support is a relevant source of income for those families who receive it, especially those living in poverty. Among child support recipients, child support brought 44 percent of children out of poverty and 81 percent out of extreme poverty. Among support recipients who were poor pre-support, the poverty gap post-support is significantly reduced to almost a third. The descriptive analyses also show that child support contributes more to the reduction of poverty in urban than in rural areas. Chapter 5 includes implications for policy and research.



A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 619 pages

File Size : 43,47 MB

Release : 2019-09-16

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0309483980

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The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.



Health Insurance is a Family Matter

Author : Institute of Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 50,74 MB

Release : 2002-09-18

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309169054

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Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. The book demonstrates that having one or more uninsured members in a family can have adverse consequences for everyone in the household and that the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of all members of a family may be adversely affected if any family member lacks coverage. It concludes with the finding that uninsured children have worse access to and use fewer health care services than children with insurance, including important preventive services that can have beneficial long-term effects.



School, Family, and Community Partnerships

Author : Joyce L. Epstein

Publisher : Corwin Press

Page : 508 pages

File Size : 47,36 MB

Release : 2018-07-19

Category : Education

ISBN : 1483320014

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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.



Parenting Plan Evaluations

Author : Kathryn Kuehnle

Publisher : OUP USA

Page : 630 pages

File Size : 20,7 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0199754020

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When conducting parenting plan evaluations, mental health professionals need to be aware of a myriad of different factors. More so than in any other form of forensic evaluation, they must have an understanding of the most current findings in developmental research, behavioral psychology, attachment theory, and legal issues to substantiate their opinions. With a number of publications on child custody available, there is an essential need for a text focused on translating the research associated with the most important topics within the family court. This book addresses this gap in the literature by presenting an organized and in-depth analysis of the current research and offering specific recommendations for applying these findings to the evaluation process. Written by experts in the child custody arena, chapters cover issues associated with the most important and complex issues that arise in family court, such as attachment and overnight timesharing with very young children, dynamics between divorced parents and children's potential for resiliency, co-parenting children with chronic medical conditions and developmental disorders, domestic violence during separation and divorce, gay and lesbian co-parents, and relocation, among others. The scientific information provided in these chapters assists forensic mental health professionals to proffer empirically-based opinions, conclusions and recommendations. Parenting Plan Evaluations is a must-read for legal practitioners, family law judges and attorneys, and other professionals seeking to understand more about the science behind child custody evaluations.



Primal Loss

Author : Leila Miller

Publisher : Lcb Publishing

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 15,65 MB

Release : 2017-05-20

Category : Adult children of divorced parents

ISBN : 9780997989311

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Seventy now-adult children of divorce give their candid and often heart-wrenching answers to eight questions (arranged in eight chapters, by question), including: What were the main effects of your parents' divorce on your life? What do you say to those who claim that "children are resilient" and "children are happy when their parents are happy"? What would you like to tell your parents then and now? What do you want adults in our culture to know about divorce? What role has your faith played in your healing? Their simple and poignant responses are difficult to read and yet not without hope. Most of the contributors--women and men, young and old, single and married--have never spoken of the pain and consequences of their parents' divorce until now. They have often never been asked, and they believe that no one really wants to know. Despite vastly different circumstances and details, the similarities in their testimonies are striking; as the reader will discover, the death of a child's family impacts the human heart in universal ways.