Child Support Encourages Paternal Involvement
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Child Support Encourages Paternal Involvement
Just as a job is about more than a paycheck, child support is about more than money. Child support has a dual quality, important both as cash income for the family and as a way to encourage paternal involvement. Establishing regular payment of child support appears to increase the father's involvement in their children's upbringing and improve a child's future outcome. It may also increase the availability of paternal relatives as a back-up system for child care and family emergencies. Although domestic violence is a concern to some families, many mothers report that they encourage their children's emotional relationship with their father and his family, and try to keep the father involved in the children's lives when feasible.
Comments
6/30/2006 11:10:00 PMKen said:
This tip fosters the stereotype that it it the Father who is the noncustodial parent. As a father and a custodial parent of two small children I find this stereotype offensive. There are many Mothers who balk at supporting there children financially. This tip should be edited to be more "PC".
1/11/2007 1:24:02 PM
Eddie said:
If child support is about being "more than money", why is it that the courts only concern themselves with that facet of the relationship. We all know this is a myth and it is "strictly about money". Give it a little further thought too, if it were not about money, the father wouldn't have to be out there busting his ass just to make ends meet and could see his children more frequently.
6/18/2009 9:53:40 PM
Leon said:
This is totally false. Most child support the father end up in jail or non exit. So money send fathers away and make mothers happy.
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