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The Relationship Between Child Support and Parenting Time
When child support guidelines were initially drafted, it was assumed that in most instances, the lesser-time parent would be the father, the father would see the children infrequently, and the father would have a higher income than the mother. Today, more custodial parents are male than before, the wage gap between mothers and fathers has Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Author(s): J. Thomas Oldham, Jane Venohr
Keyword(s): child support, Family Law Quarterly, parenting time
Parenting Time and Child Support: Information for Fatherhood Programs and Fathers
Many fathers who participate in fatherhood programs do not live with all of their children. They often seek help from fatherhood programs to navigate the child support system, determine how they can spend more time with their children, or improve their coparenting relationships. Unfortunately, it can be quite complicated for programs to provide this assistance, Read More
Author(s): Anne Bryne, Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): child support, fatherhood, parenting time
Families in Society: What Nonresident Mothers and Fathers Have to Say About a Mother-Only Coparenting Intervention
Coparenting between mothers and nonresident fathers is a consistent predictor of positive father involvement and is shown to have a direct positive impact on children’s behavioral outcomes. While many fatherhood programs attempt to improve coparenting relationships using father-only interventions, the information on their effectiveness is mixed. Couple interventions may be more effective than father-only approaches Read More
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
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Focus Area(s): Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Lanae Davis, Nancy Thoennes
Including Fathers in Programs and Policies for Children and Families
The Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN) examined state approaches to supporting fatherhood programs and including fathers in state agencies, departments, programs, and policies that affect children and families. The goal of the investigation is to stimulate replication of effective approaches in state settings. Our review covered four large-scale federal grant or demonstration programs dealing Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): children, families, fatherhood, fatherhood programs, program innovations
Oregon’s New Tool for Parents in The Child Support System: The Interactive Parenting Plan
Oregon’s Interactive Parenting Plan (IPP) is the first comprehensive, interactive tool created to generate customized parenting plans. It is the result of a joint effort of many stakeholders, including representatives of the court, the child support program, the private bar, mediators, community organizations serving families with safety issues, and experts in the field of child Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Family-Centered Interventions, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes
Keyword(s): co-parenting, parenting time
State Approaches to Including Fathers in Programs and Policies Dealing with Children and Families
This brief reviews some of the ways in which federal, state, and local initiatives in the U.S. have attempted to ensure that father involvement is reflected in programs and policies dealing with children and families. The examples provided are not comprehensive but cover much of the national activity that exists at the state level and illustrate the various ways in which Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): child support, fatherhood programs, healthy marriage
Self-perceived Coparenting of Nonresident Fathers: Scale Development and Validation
This study reports on the development and validation of the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network coparenting perceptions scale for nonresident fathers. Although other measures of coparenting have been developed, this is the first measure developed specifically for low-income, nonresident fathers. Focus groups were conducted to determine various aspects of coparenting. Based on this, a scale Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): coparenting, fatherhood
Oregon Parenting Time Opportunities for Children: Evaluation of the Mediation and Oregon Parenting time Grant
Under a Parenting Time Opportunities for Children (PTOC) grant from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), the Oregon Department of Justice engaged 20 mediators throughout the state to provide free mediation services to parents served by the child support agency. All of those served lacked a parenting time order and were interested in Read More
Focus Area(s): Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Lanae Davis, Lauren Alessi, Nancy Thoennes
Keyword(s): #Parentingtime, child support
Measures of Father-Child Relationship Quality
Research with fathers enrolled in fatherhood programs is often limited to measuring the amount of child involvement, since there are few existing quality measures that have been rigorously tested for use with low-income, nonresident fathers who are primarily unmarried. In this FRPN research brief we examined two short measures assessing the quality of father-child relationships Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): fatherhood