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Article: Gender, Families, and State: Child Support Policy in the United States.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Deborah McFarlane, University of New Mexico
This book is about child support policy in the United States. Since 1974, the United States has developed and implemented a comprehensive federal child support policy. "What kind of solution is this?" asks Josephson. What are the problems that this system of child support enforcement addresses? "Answering these questions is at the heart of this book" (p. 2). What is dazzling is that the book answers these questions at so many levels: theoretical, empirical, and normative.
The author points out that public policies take place "in a particular historical, political, and institutional context" (p. 2), and they are ...