Single mothers and child support: The possibilities and limits of child support policy
K Edin - Children and Youth Services Review, 1995 - Elsevier
In recent years, policy-makers have argued that one method of reducing welfare
dependency is to toughen up child support enforcement. Yet every government effort to do
so has yielded meager results. Furthermore, experts predict that even when fully
implemented, Congress's most recent effort to fix this system, the Family Support Act of 1988,
will do little more to help most poor children to get child support from their fathers. These
failures indicate that policy makers and social scientists must go much further in their efforts …
dependency is to toughen up child support enforcement. Yet every government effort to do
so has yielded meager results. Furthermore, experts predict that even when fully
implemented, Congress's most recent effort to fix this system, the Family Support Act of 1988,
will do little more to help most poor children to get child support from their fathers. These
failures indicate that policy makers and social scientists must go much further in their efforts …