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Green Book
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Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdicition of the Committee on Ways and Means |
Author(s): Committee on Ways and Means |
Organization(s): Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives |
The Green Book is compiled by the staff of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives from many sources and provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty, and taxation. It has become a standard reference work for those interested in the direction of social policy in the United States. This web site contains links to editions available electronically. |
Published: June, 2003 |
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More About the Dads:
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Exploring Associations Between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes |
Author(s): Karin Malm, Erica Zielewski, and Henry Chen |
Organization(s): Urban Institute |
This report is a follow-up to the study What About the Dads, published by ASPE and ACF in 2006. The original study examined child welfare agencies' efforts to identify, locate, and involve nonresident fathers of children in foster care. This report, using administrative data supplied by each of the states that participated in the original study, examines case outcomes for the children whose caseworkers were previously interviewed. At the time the data were extracted for this follow-up analysis, approximately two years had passed since the original interviews, and most of the children (75%) had exited foster care. These analyses use information from the original study about whether the father had been identified and contacted by the child welfare agency and about the contacted fathers' level of involvement with their children, combined with administrative data about case outcomes two years later, to explore three research questions: (1) Is nonresident father involvement associated with case length? (2) Is nonresident father involvement associated with foster care discharge outcomes? and (3) Is nonresident father involvement associated with subsequent child maltreatment allegations? |
Published: March, 2008 |
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Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
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Author(s): Karin Martinson and Demetra Nightingale |
Organization(s): Urban Institute |
This brief summarizes key findings from several important fatherhood initiatives that were developed and implemented during the 1990s and early 2000s. Formal evaluations of these fatherhood efforts have been completed, some quite recently, making this an opportune time to step back and assess what has been learned and how policy makers and program managers can build on the early programsÂ’ successes and challenges. The brief highlights lessons from: the Young Unwed Fathers Project, ParentsÂ’ Fair Share (PFS), Welfare-to-Work Grant (WtW) Programs, Responsible Fatherhood Programs (RFP), and Partners for Fragile Families (PFF). |
Published: February, 2008 |
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Emerging Issues in Paternity Establishment
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Symposium Summary |
Author(s): Susan Paikin |
Organization(s): Xtria. Subcontractor: Center for the Support of Families |
This report summarizes the discussion at the Emerging Issues in Paternity Disestablishment Expert Symposium convened by ASPE in January 2006 as part of a project that explored how paternity disestablishment may impact child support enforcement and child welfare policies and practice, the broader social context of best interest of the child and fairness and justice, and the social and legal implications of paternity disestablishment for family law. |
Published: September, 2007 |
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Partners for Fragile Families (PFF) Demonstration Projects:
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Employment and Child Support Outcomes and Trends |
Author(s): Karin Martinson, Demetra Smith Nightingale, Pamela A. Holcomb, Burt S. Barnow, and John Trutko |
Organization(s): Urban Institute with Subcontracts to Johns Hopkins University and Capital Research Corporation |
This report focuses on the characteristics of PFF participants and participants' employment, earnings, and child support patterns prior and subsequent to their enrollment in the program. Quarterly wage data from state unemployment compensation records were used to assess employment outcomes. State child support data on child support awards and payments were used to assess changes in participants' child support behaviors. From April 2000 through the end of 2003, nine states conducted PFF demonstrations, which were designed to help fragile families by helping fathers work with mothers in sharing the legal, financial, and emotional responsibilities of parenthood. Services were targeted at young, never-married, non-custodial parents. |
Published: September, 2007 |
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Assessing Child Support Arrears in Nine Large States and the Nation
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Author(s): Elaine Sorensen, Liliana Sousa, and Simon Schaner |
Organization(s): The Urban Institute |
Despite record child support collections by state child support programs, considerable sums of child support go unpaid every year. This report provides a profile of state child support debt, examining who owes it and why it has grown so rapidly, based on analysis of state administrative data. Earnings data from the wage reporting system were used for a simulation of the collectability of child support debt. State child support policies on order establishment and arrearages were documented and analyzed to identify factors associated with greater accumulation of debt as well as state strategies for debt management. |
Published: July, 2007 |
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Implementation of the Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects
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Author(s): Karin Martinson, John Trutko, Demetra Smith Nightingale, Pamela A. Holcomb, Burt S. Barnow |
Organization(s): Urban Institute |
Through site visit interviews, focus groups, analysis of program documents, and preliminary review of participant data, this report documents how the Partners for Fragile Families (PFF) programs began, changed, and evolved. From April 2000 through the end of 2003, nine states conducted PFF demonstrations, which were designed to help fragile families by helping fathers work with mothers in sharing the legal, financial, and emotional responsibilities of parenthood. Services were targeted at young, never-married, non-custodial parents. The goal of the demonstrations was to make lasting changes in the way public agencies and community organizations work with young unmarried parents to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes for children and parents. |
Published: June, 2007 |
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Voices of Young Fathers: The Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects
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Author(s): Alford A. Young, Jr. and Pamela A. Holcomb |
Organization(s): The Urban Institute |
This report draws on in-depth interviews of young fathers and families at two Partners for Fragile Families sites to assess the effects of services received on the fragile family itself and explore the dynamics of fragile families, particularly around family formation issues, and how poor couples make strategic life course decisions. From April 2000 through the end of 2003, nine states conducted PFF demonstrations, which were designed to help fragile families by helping fathers work with mothers in sharing the legal, financial, and emotional responsibilities of parenthood. Services were targeted at young, never-married, non-custodial parents. The goal of the demonstrations was to make lasting changes in the way public agencies and community organizations work with young unmarried parents to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes for children and parents. |
Published: June, 2007 |
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Marital and Unmarried Births to Men:
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Complex Patterns of Fatherhood, Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2002 |
Author(s): Steven L. Nock |
Organization(s): ASPE |
This ASPE research brief suggests that for most men, fatherhood is restricted to marriage. A significant fraction of men, however, have complex fertility patterns including un-married births, but also mixtures of marital, cohabiting, and single births. A man's pattern of births is related to a wide range of social and economic circumstances. Importantly, a man's status at the time his first child is born is very strongly related to his marital status when his other children are born. |
Published: April, 2007 |
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Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts Through Improved Use of Information on Debtor Income
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Final Report |
Author(s): Karen Gardiner, Mike Fishman, Sam Elkin, and Asaph Glosser |
Organization(s): The Lewin Group |
This report examines how some of the information available to OCSE and the states' IV-D programs through the Federal Parent Locator Service can be used to enhance enforcement efforts. Specifically, this report explores the potential income sources of non-custodial parents with arrearages. It examines alternative income sources for those obligors who have no reported income in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Quarterly Wage data and for all obligors who have arrearages. It also analyzes how arrearages for individual obligors change over time, and how those changes are related to type and amount of income. By helping Federal and state policy makers and managers understand obligor income streams and debt patterns, it is hoped that this report will contribute to the development of additional data-driven solutions for enhancing child support collections. This report also summarizes child support information available from Federal administrative data sources and how that data can be used to answer program management questions |
Published: October, 2006 |
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