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America's Fathers and Public Policy: Report of a Workshop (1994)
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (CBASSE)

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America's Fathers and Public Policy: Report of a Workshop

Contents

 

  

INTRODUCTION

  

1

 

  

THE MANY FACES OF FATHERHOOD

  

4
   

 Economic Support,

  

5
   

 Fathers' Investments of Time,

  

6
   

 Interactions with Children,

  

7
   

 Fathers of Disabled Children,

  

9
   

 Summary,

  

12

 

  

BARRIERS AND INCENTIVES TO INVOLVEMENT

  

13
   

 Financial and Job-Related Factors,

  

13
   

 Roe Models and Teenage Fathers,

  

15
   

 Influence of Other Relationships,

  

18
   

 Summary,

  

19

 

  

PUBLIC POLICY

  

21
   

 Federal Policies: Identifying Fathers and Making Them Pay,

  

22
   

 Custody Issues and Fathers' Rights,

  

27
   

 Young Fathers,

  

29

 

  

SUGGESTED DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH

  

36

 

  

REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

  

41

 

  

APPENDIX: WORKSHOP AGENDA

  

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