Sentences with phrase «for nonresident fathers»

The importance of the coparental relationship for nonresident fathers» ties to children.

Juliana M. Sobolewski, Valarie King (2005) The Importance of the Coparental Relationship for Nonresident Fathers» Ties to Children Journal of Marriage and Family 67 (5), 1196 - 1212.

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Nonresident fathers may thus be enacting the parent role more successfully now than in the past, with beneficial consequences for children.

Such programs would provide parent education classes for divorcing parents, increase the minimum wage and the earned income tax credit for poor working parents, establish paternity and increase the payment of child support, and improve the quantity and quality of time that nonresident parents, especially fathers, spend with their children.

Information from fathers is available for a representative sample of 470,000 nonresident fathers who report child support payments (out of the more than 2 million unwed, nonresident fathers in the SIPP panel).

Learning Resources for Father Engagement North Carolina Division of Social Services, Children's Services Statewide Training Partnership (2013) Training Matters, 14 (2) Provides social workers in North Carolina with resources highlighting the benefits of healthy father involvement in promoting child development, tools for engaging nonresident fathers, and suggestions for conducting interviews with faFather Engagement North Carolina Division of Social Services, Children's Services Statewide Training Partnership (2013) Training Matters, 14 (2) Provides social workers in North Carolina with resources highlighting the benefits of healthy father involvement in promoting child development, tools for engaging nonresident fathers, and suggestions for conducting interviews with fafather involvement in promoting child development, tools for engaging nonresident fathers, and suggestions for conducting interviews with fathers.

Variation in the consequences of nonresident father involvement for children's well - being.

Fact: «While public sentiment has been in favor of nonresident father's involvement in family life, there is limited research evidence of whether their involvement yields positive benefits for children (King, 1994) and for the functioning of the biological family unit... most studies, particularly those based on large national databases, have not been able to detect a significant connection between the nonresident father's contact with his child and the child's well - being (Furstenberg et al., 1987; King, 1994).

Fact: «Contrary to the additive hypothesis that adolescents would be best off when they enjoyed close ties to both stepfathers and nonresident fathers, results show that having a close tie to one's stepfather only is nearly as beneficial as having close ties to both fathers... Having close ties only to a nonresident father is not as beneficial as having close ties to both fathers in terms of externalizing and internalizing problems, although it is for avoiding failing grades.

Engaging Noncustodial Fathers in Child Welfare Cases: A Guide for Children's Attorneys and Lawyer Guardians ad Litem (PDF - 4,198 KB) Pilnik & Kendall (2010) National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System Offers practice tips to identify and engage nonresident fathers in child clients» cases while keeping the child's best interests at the forFathers in Child Welfare Cases: A Guide for Children's Attorneys and Lawyer Guardians ad Litem (PDF - 4,198 KB) Pilnik & Kendall (2010) National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System Offers practice tips to identify and engage nonresident fathers in child clients» cases while keeping the child's best interests at the forFathers and the Child Welfare System Offers practice tips to identify and engage nonresident fathers in child clients» cases while keeping the child's best interests at the forfathers in child clients» cases while keeping the child's best interests at the forefront.

Fact: «T] here is little evidence to support the hypothesis that nonresident father involvement has positive benefits for children.»

Part of the explanation for this pattern may be that children are spending time with their nonresident fathers instead of participating in extracurricular activities.»

In general, these studies do not provide strong support for the belief that visitation with nonresident fathers benefits children.

Comment: The legal fiction (aided and abetted by widespread public misconceptions about what constitutes a «parent» under the law) also is responsible for the avalanching trend — contrary to historical jurisprudence and contrary to the relationship - based notion of «family» that underlies the «liberty interest» respected by the U.S. Constitution — to consider unwed nonresident biological sires to be «legal fathers.»