Tag: child support
America’s Most Expensive Blind Spot: The $154 Billion Cost of Ignoring Fathers
This report lands because it restores dignity to the fatherhood conversation and refuses to reduce fathers to heroes or hazards. It frames fathers as economic actors, relational anchors, and public health factors. It suggests that improving father involvement is not just about a man “doing right.” It’s about building conditions where doing right is possible, repeatable, and supported.
If America is willing to spend $154.2 billion cleaning up the consequences of instability, America should be willing to spend far less building stability. This frees the fatherhood conversation from ideology and moves it toward stewardship.
Why Fathers’ Parenting Time Matters: Lessons from the Research
Georgia, like much of the nation, has worked hard to build systems that compel fathers’ financial responsibility. Yet the research keeps telling us what families already know. When courts and agencies help fathers secure safe, structured parenting time, children gain stability, parents reduce conflict, and child support outcomes improve.
Parenting time is not a sentimental add-on to the “real” work of family court. It is the architecture that holds the whole structure up.
Child Support Without a Villain: Rebuilding the Narrative and the System (Part II)
Reforming the child support system, which affects millions of families across all 50 states and costs billions of dollars annually to administer, is not a matter of political preference. It’s a matter of social responsibility.
The Child Support System Needs a Villain (Part 1)
For any system to present itself as powerful, righteous, or heroic, it must have an opposing threat. For child support, that’s not systemic inequity or structural poverty; it’s fathers cast as deadbeats. As absentees. As villains with faulty moral compasses. And once that narrative is set, everything else follows.
The Maze of Fatherhood: Why Georgia Must Reform Legitimation Now
In Georgia, a child born to unmarried parents is not automatically granted the legal right to both parents. While this may come as a surprise to many, to the thousands of fathers served by Fathers Incorporated, it’s a harsh and often heartbreaking reality.
Top 5 Emerging Fatherhood Topics: Charting a New Course for Fathers Everywhere
In this blog, we explore five emerging fatherhood topics we’re watching now — Child Support, Maternal Health Care Advocacy, Housing, Economic Sustainability, and Dads as Doulas — and discuss why these issues are vital, what actions are needed, and how FI is driving change in each area.
What the Child Support Rule Change Means for Fathers and the Work of Fathers Incorporated
The Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) has made a groundbreaking decision to allow Federal Financial Participation (FFP) under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act to fund employment and training services for noncustodial parents. This shift represents an innovative approach to solving long-standing challenges in child support compliance, focusing on empowering noncustodial parents through employment opportunities and supportive services.
The Crucial Role of Responsible Fatherhood in Child Support: A New Era
Fatherhood is not just about financial contributions, it’s about emotional involvement, presence, commitment, and shared responsibility.
Big Increase Of Women Paying Alimony And Child Support
Big Increase Of Women Paying Alimony And Child Support. Survey of Nation’s Top Matrimonial Attorneys Also Reveals More Parents Sharing Custody
Parents and Children Together: The Complex Needs of Low-Income Men
Broad changes in family demographics have left many children without the support or involvement of their fathers. As a result of high rates of nonmarital births and […]
More than 20 states in 2017 considered laws to promote shared custody of children after divorce
The every-other-weekend dad, born from two generations of soaring divorce rates, was once a conventional part of American culture.
Be a Financial All-Star Dad with These 7 Tips
Be A Financial All-Star Dad – Children learn by example and are always studying you.
Child Support Awareness Month: A Look at How Child Support is Evolving (Webinar)
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:30 – 02:00 PM EDT August is Child Support Awareness Month. Register Here State and local child support offices are scheduling special events […]
Bad Dad Rehab Contains A Message of the Fatherhood Work Before Us
Bad Dad Rehab is about four men who are fathers to their children, but not dads.
Expectations of Fathers’ Roles Expands from Emphasis on Provider to Equal Partners, Nurturers
“Over the past two decades, fathers have become more involved in all aspects of their children’s lives,” says Kenneth Braswell, National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) Director.