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The intergovernmental dimensions of child support enforcement in America
Abstract
This is a longitudinal study designed to determine whether federal interventions into child support enforcement policy have been significant. Child support policy was an area traditionally reserved to the States and administered at the local level. Beginning in 1950, however, the national government began to take a more active role, and established a working partnership with State and local governments in a series of amendments to the Social Security Act from 1950 through 1988. To accomplish the study's objectives, multiple methods of data collection (survey research, content analysis, documentary research) were combined with longitudinal (time series) analysis. The result is research which takes into account the dynamic nature of the policy process. The findings presented here show that federal interventions have been significant and indicate the beginning of a trend in child support collections which has the effect of raising some families above the poverty level and off the AFDC program. Although much room for improvement exists, the results propose that national interventions in child support policy have the potential for raising some families above the poverty level and decreasing the welfare costs for the States.
Subject Area
Political science
Recommended Citation
Naumann, Darl Allen, "The intergovernmental dimensions of child support enforcement in America" (1992). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9233412.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9233412