Unwed fathers' ability to pay child support: New estimates accounting for multiple-partner fertility

Demography

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-263

  Sinkewicz, Marilyn ^a   Garfinkel, Irwin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD CUSTODY; FATHER; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MOTHER;

CHILD; CHILD CUSTODY; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FATHERS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MOTHERS;

EID: 69249192710     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0051     Document Type: Article

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