Nepomnyaschy Lenna, Garfinkel Irwin
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Soc Serv Rev. 2010;84(3):341-80. doi: 10.1086/655392.
This study examines the total package of child support that mothers receive from the nonresident fathers of their children, by focusing on three components of total support: formal cash, informal cash, and in-kind support. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this article considers how contributions change over time and the effects of child support enforcement on these contributions. Findings suggest that total cash support received drops precipitously over the first 15 months of living apart (as informal support drops off) and then increases slightly after 45 months (as the increase in formal support overtakes the decrease in informal support). While the study finds no effect of enforcement on total support received in the first 5 years after a nonmarital birth, the substantial differences in total cash support received by the length of time that parents have not been cohabiting suggest that strong enforcement may be efficacious over time.
正式现金、非正式现金和实物支持，考察母亲从其子女的非居住父亲那里获得的子女抚养支持的整体情况。本文利用《脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究》，探讨抚养支持如何随时间变化以及子女抚养强制执行对这些支持的影响。研究结果表明，在分居的前15个月里，获得的总现金支持急剧下降（因为非正式支持减少），然后在45个月后略有增加（因为正式支持的增加超过了非正式支持的减少）。虽然该研究发现，非婚生育后最初5年，强制执行对获得的总抚养支持没有影响，但父母未同居时间长短导致获得的总现金支持存在显著差异，这表明随着时间推移，强有力的强制执行可能会产生效果。
