000			01733 a2200181 4500
999			_c26189 _d26189
020			_a9780199371143
082			_a306.8742 _bMIN-F
100			_aMincy, B. Ronald
100			_aJethwani Monique
100			_aKlempin Serena
245			_aFailing Our Fathers _b: Confronting the Crisis of Economically Vulnerable Nonresident Fathers
260			_bOxford University Press _c2015 _aUnited Kingdom
300			_axviii,186p
504			_aInclude Index
520			_aMaligned as "deadbeat dads" or sexually and financially irresponsible inner-city fathers and overlooked in discussions of poverty and family policy, economically vulnerable nonresident fathers are a greatly misunderstood population. Failing Our Fathers summarizes the most recent quantitative and qualitative research, and undertakes new analyses to fill in important gaps, to produce a comprehensive picture of who these fathers are, what types of relationships they have with their families and children, and the challenges they face meeting what their loved ones and taxpayers expect from them. The great majority of these men see their children on a regular basis, despite the financial, legal, and extra-legal barriers they face. Besides requiring fathers to support their children, we must enable them to do so by supplementing their earnings and supporting their co-parenting, in ways that parallel how we require and enable vulnerable single mothers to support their children. The book lays out specific reforms required to achieve this goal as well as tips for those resources for economically vulnerable nonresident fathers.
650			_aAbsentee fathers _vSingle mothers _vFatherhood _vFather and child _vFatherless families _zUnited States
942			_2ddc _cBK