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Child Support Resource Library
Welcome to the YoungWilliams Child Support Resource Library. Search by keywords or use the filters to select categories of interest to you. Currently, our Library consists of academic and government research articles and reports from around the country, federal opinions, and case law from states in which our full service child support projects are located.
Child Support Program Promotes Marriage and Reduces Non-Marital Child Bearing: Research Fact Sheet
This is a link to a CLASP Research Fact Sheet, which provides a brief listing of the effects of child support on family formation and stability. States with stronger child support enforcement programs have lower non-marital birth rates and lower divorce rates than states where child support is not as effective.
Child Support Payments Benefit Children in Non-Economic as Well As Economic Ways: Research Fact Sheet
The Effect of Child Support and Self-Sufficiency Programs on Reducing Direct Support Public Costs
Overcoming the Barriers to Collection Final Report
This report summarizes findings of a Washington State Child Support research project entitled Child Support Performance Measurements: A Test for Working Hard-to-Collect Cases. The goal of the project was to find out whether increased collections on challenging cases would improve performance in the five federally measured areas.
To What Extent Do Children Benefit from Child Support?
Child support provides a significant source of income for poor families. Child support also reduces the number of poor children by a half million and lessens income inequality among children eligible for it. Unfortunately, about 70 percent of poor children eligible for child support were not getting it in 1996.
Child Support Offers Some Protection Against Poverty
The Potential of the Child Support Enforcement Program to Avoid Costs to Public Programs: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature: Final Report
Child Support Arrears: Compilation of Three Reports
This report is a compilation of three reports: New Approaches to Child Support Arrears: A Survey of State Policies and Practices (March 2001); Understanding Child Support Arrears in Colorado (March 2001); Dropping Debt: An Evaluation of Colorado’s Debt and Retroactive Child Support Initiative (April 2001). The research was conducted by the Division of Child Support Services with the Colorado Department of Human Services.
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Feasibility of Collecting Fees for Child Support Services
Serving Parents Who Leave Prison: Final Report on the Work and Family Center
The report focuses on ex-offenders with Colorado child support cases who were offered assistance with employment, child support, and family reintegration.The research was conducted by the Division of Child Support Services with the Colorado Department of Human Services.
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