Tag: Child Support Reform
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.
When Fatherhood Requires a Court Order: What Georgia Must Fix Now
For the first time in years, lawmakers gathered publicly to confront an issue many Georgians have never even heard of—legitimation.