ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Children and Family

What Parents Should Know About Government's Efforts to Assist Children
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Naomi Lopez
Country: United States
E-mail: nlopez@pacificresearch.org

Lopez writes, "There is no doubt that children’s issues deserve serious and careful consideration. But before further attempts are made to expand government’s already considerable role in the lives of children, the public should be made aware and the nation should debate the proper role of government." (8/98)

The decline of marriage
Source: Scientific American
Author: Rodger Doyle
Country: United States
E-mail: rdoyle@aol.com

"Only 67 percent of American women aged 35 to 44 were legally married as of 1998. This contrasts with 81 percent in the period 1890-1940. ... This trend reflects several developments, including rising age of marriage, increasing popularity of cohabitation, high divorce rates and growth in the number of children born out-of-wedlock." (12/99)

Charting parenthood
Source: Child Trends
Country: United States

Charting Parenthood: A Statistical Portrait of Fathers and Mothers in America is available online for free. This report focuses on both parents, not just mothers, e.g. how do men feel about parenthood.

Why men won't commit
Source: Rutgers University
Author: Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe
Country: United States

Rutger's controversial new study: "The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America 2002. Why Men Won't Commit Exploring Young Men's Attitudes About Sex, Dating and Marriage."

The American invention of child support
Source: ANCPR/Yale Law Journal
Country: United States

Subtitled "dependency and punishment in early American child support law," this in-depth report charts the development of child payments in America from the nineteenth century through to the "deadbeat dad."

New approaches to child support arrears
Source: ANCPR
Country: United States

"Across the country, unpaid child support debt is a serious problem. In fact, it appears about one-half of all open child support enforcement cases have accrued debt. Understandably, states are concerned about carrying the accrued debt and the costs of trying to collect it." This essay examines new avenues of approach.

Privatize child welfare
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Country: United States

This study (Winter, 2001) deplores the state of current Child Welfare programs and suggests both accountability and privatization measures as solutions.

Parental rights and due process
Source: Journal of Law and Family Studies
Author: Donald C. Hubin
Country: United States

Despite their status as fundamental constitutional rights, parental rights are routinely suspended or revoked as a result of procedures that fail to meet even minimal standards of procedural and substantive due process.

Child advocacy centers: Toward performance-based child protection
Source: RPPI
Author: Lisa Snell
Country: United States

Study reviewing the child advocacy model and offering recommendations on making them more performance-based. (PDF file) (6/03)

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