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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
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
Where to Find Young Men – Child Support Quarterly
Child support agencies struggle to find ways to reach young men and communicate with them about paternity and child support before they become embroiled in the child support system. The outreach efforts conducted to date at hospitals and birthing centers, prenatal programs, and WIC programs, are typically sparsely attended by men (See companion article, “Outreaching Read More
Issue(s): Economic Security & Healthcare, Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs, Healthcare, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): paternity, pregnancy prevention
Establishing Parenting Time in Child Support Cases: New Opportunities and Challenges
Despite dramatic increases in collections, child support frequently fails to be the linchpin to family self-sufficiency that it could be, and many researchers, advocates and policymakers have concluded that future progress in collections will require making the child support system more fair and responsive to its growing poor, never-married caseload. High on the list of Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): child support, co-parenting
Parenting Time and Co-Parenting for Unmarried Parents
This editorial discusses the special issue which focuses on parents who were not married at the time of their children’s birth. Because their relationships are not covered by marital family law, they do not have the clearly established rights and responsibilities that divorcing parents have following their breakup. The articles in this issue examine the Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): child support, co-parenting
Framing the Future of Co-Parenting Evaluation Research for the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network
The difficulties facing young economically disadvantaged unwed parents and their children – who are referred to as “fragile families” for lack of a better phrase – require a coordinated and constructive response from family focused practitioners, researchers and policy makers. Over the past decade, the federal government has been experimenting with educational programs directly intended Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): cognitive development, education, instability, marriage, relationship, unwed
Child Support Program and Parenting Time Orders: Research, Practice, and Partnership Project – Roundtable on Domestic Violence
OCSE has funded some demonstration and evaluation projects and grants in the area of parenting, and some states use funding available through the State Access and Visitation (AV) Program to support parenting time services for unmarried parents in the child support program. However, only a handful of jurisdictions have mechanisms to incorporate parenting time agreements into initial child Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships, Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Rasa Kaunelis
Coparenting Interventions for Fragile Families: What Do We Know and Where Do We Need To Go Next?
With a large and growing share of American families now forming outside of marriage, triangular infant–mother–father relationship systems in “fragile families” have begun to attract the interest of family scholars and clinicians. A relatively novel conceptualization has concerned the feasibility of intervening to support the development of a sustained and positive coparenting alliance between mothers Read More
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Focus Area(s): Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): co-parenting
Tennessee Parenting Project – Final Report
The goal of the Tennessee Parenting Project was to assess whether identifying parents with visitation problems in the child support caseload and providing services aimed at resolving them improves parent-child contact and the subsequent payment of child support. The project was conducted in child support offices and juvenile courts in three jurisdictions: Nashville (20th Judicial District – Davidson County); Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Family-Centered Interventions, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Lanae Davis, Nancy Thoennes
Relationships for Real Life – Building Healthy Marriages and Family Relationships: A Collaboration for Boston Families
The Boston Health Marriage Initiative is a five-year demonstration project funded by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (2004-2009). Known as Relationships for Real Life (RRL), the project was conducted by the Father Friendly Initiative (FFI) of the Boston Public Health Commission. RRL consisted of facilitated classes for low-income, single individuals and couples that aimed to improve the Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Family-Centered Interventions, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Lanae Davis, Nancy Thoennes