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Article: Child support payment and child visitation: perspectives from nonresident fathers and resident mothers.
- Article from:
- Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
- Author:
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the child support and visitation perspectives of nonresidential fathers and custodial mothers. The focus of the study was to present definitions of child support from both noncustodial fathers and custodial mothers, the barriers they experience that prevent child support and visitation, and suggestions the parents have for improvements in the child support system. The data suggest that although nonresidential fathers and custodial mothers have similar definitions of what characteristics define child support, they have vastly different views of what barriers prevent child support and visitation. Interparental hostility ...