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This report examines why the child support system breaks down for so many low-income families, presenting information from interviews with unmarried mothers and

One of the most challenging goals for welfare reformers has been improving the collection of child support payments from noncustodial parents, usually fathers.

Child support is a private transfer that is integral to the means-tested public transfer system. Support payments generally lower the budget costs of welfare as

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn hel