CHILD-SUPPORT NONCOMPLIANCE AND DIVORCED FATHERS - RETHINKING THE ROLE OF PATERNAL INVOLVEMENT

Despite the wide citation of the number of children not receiving child support, not enough is known about the characteristics and conditions that might be related to fathers’ child support payments. The purpose of this discussion is to explore the issue of child support compliance with the larger scope of post-divorce paternal involvement. Three areas of concern, fathers’ visitation, the coparental relationship, and custodial arrangement, are examined as they relate to child support compliance and overall postdivorce paternal involvement. Points of intervention and policy recommendations which would facilitate child support payment and father involvement in general are discussed. © 1991 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.