Child support enforcement and fathers' contributions to their nonmarital children

Social Service Review

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 341-380

  Nepomnyaschy, Lenna ^a   Garfinkel, Irwin ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD WELFARE; DIVORCE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FATHER CHILD RELATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIVORCE; FAMILY RELATIONS; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77958530147     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655392     Document Type: Review

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