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abstract: 'Many custodial mothers and their children rely on child support to meet
basic needs; yet, most do not receive all of the support they are owed.
Understanding why some fathers do not meet their formal support
obligations is important for the well-being of children in single-parent
families. Research about noncustodial fathers'' compliance with formal
support obligations has focused predominantly on quantitative analyses
of individual, family, and structural factors affecting compliance, with
a more limited body of qualitative work exploring noncustodial father
perspectives. Generally missing are the perspectives of staff who work
with noncustodial parents on overcoming compliance barriers. Staff
provide unique and useful insights, given their vantage point from
within systems and across fathers. However, staff perspectives alone are
inadequate for understanding the full context of noncustodial parent
experiences, as noncustodial parents possess a unique view into the
child support system as customers.
This article contributes to the evidence base on barriers to compliance
with formal child support obligations by the sharing perspectives of
staff who work with noncustodial fathers struggling to find work and pay
child support on overcoming these barriers, and comparing their
perspectives to those of noncustodial fathers. Data were gathered
through interviews and surveys with child support, employment, and
parenting staff conducted for the Child Support Noncustodial Parent
Employment Demonstration, and are compared to perspectives of fathers
gathered through focus groups for the same evaluation (Vogel, 2020).
Results indicate five types of practical, system-based, and experiential
factors contributing to noncompliance: (1) an array of barriers to
employment; (2) insufficient income to meet obligations; (3) child
support system-initiated barriers; (4) resistance to paying support
without visitation access; and (5) prior interactions with the child
support system.
Findings suggest a number of policy changes that could help facilitate
compliance among struggling noncustodial fathers, including: access to
services to address practical barriers to work; system-level health
care, child care, public infrastructure, and criminal justice reforms;
administrative and statutory changes within child support to help
address high burden orders, enforcement actions that impede employment,
and state-owed arrearages; and providing pathways to visitation when
safe and appropriate.'
affiliation: 'Vogel, LK (Corresponding Author), Univ Wisconsin, Inst Res Poverty,
1180 Observ Dr, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
Vogel, LK (Corresponding Author), Georgetown Univ, McCourt Sch Publ Policy, Old
North Hall,37th \& O Sts NW, Washington, DC 20057 USA.
Vogel, Lisa Klein, Univ Wisconsin, Inst Res Poverty, 1180 Observ Dr, Madison, WI
53706 USA.'
article-number: '104763'
author: Vogel, Lisa Klein
author-email: lmklein@wisc.edu
author_list:
- family: Vogel
given: Lisa Klein
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104763
eissn: 1873-7765
files: []
issn: 0190-7409
journal: CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
keywords: 'Child support; Compliance barriers; Economic well-being; Mixed-methods
analysis'
keywords-plus: 'QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WAGE INEQUALITY; DEADBEAT DADS; FATHERS;
ENFORCEMENT; FAMILIES; WELFARE; POLICY; PAY; EMPLOYMENT'
language: English
month: MAR
number-of-cited-references: '57'
orcid-numbers: Vogel, Lisa/0000-0001-9329-2732
papis_id: 9b752d0c4523846094854bb20977622e
ref: Vogel2020helpme
times-cited: '8'
title: 'Help me help you: Identifying and addressing barriers to child support compliance'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000517661700011
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
volume: '110'
web-of-science-categories: Family Studies; Social Work
year: '2020'