Article: Reconnecting, rebuilding and re-educating: evaluating a responsible fatherhood program for incarcerated "deadbeat" dads.

The Child Support Recovery Act passed by Congress in 1992 led to many states adopting creative "get tough" policies for fathers who failed to pay child support, ranging from forfeiture of fishing licenses (in Virginia and Wisconsin) to incarceration. The threat of incarceration may be enough for many delinquent fathers to catch up on payments. However, recent research reveals that many dads who fail to pay child support are poor themselves, and incarceration may compound family problems (Sorenson and Zibman, 2001). Proponents of get tough policies advocate that men who fail to pay child support are irresponsible and assume these fathers have limited contact with their ...

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