Book contents
- How Fathers Help their Children Develop
- How Fathers Help their Children Develop
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Contemporary Fathers and Their Children in the US
- 2 The Role of Fathers in Child Development
- 3 The Money Story
- 4 The Love Story
- 5 Why Does Money Matter for Children’s Development?
- 6 How Does Parental Money and Love and Children’s Own Contributions Matter for Children’s Development?
- 7 Policies and Programs Implicated by Our Findings
- 8 Implications for Policy and Program Change
- Methodological Appendices
- References
- Index
8 - Implications for Policy and Program Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2026
Book contents
- How Fathers Help their Children Develop
- How Fathers Help their Children Develop
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Contemporary Fathers and Their Children in the US
- 2 The Role of Fathers in Child Development
- 3 The Money Story
- 4 The Love Story
- 5 Why Does Money Matter for Children’s Development?
- 6 How Does Parental Money and Love and Children’s Own Contributions Matter for Children’s Development?
- 7 Policies and Programs Implicated by Our Findings
- 8 Implications for Policy and Program Change
- Methodological Appendices
- References
- Index
Summary
Given our findings about how money and love are associated with young children’s well-being, this chapter develops recommendations to Congress that would (1) increase financial support to resident and nonresident families by making the temporary changes to transfer programs permanent; (2) increase the focus of healthy and marriage programs on improving child well-being; (3) provide coparenting relationship education to eligible responsible fatherhood program graduates and their coparenting partners and increase the focus on improving child well-being; and (4) incorporate informal financial support or right-sized child support orders for nonresident fathers lacking recent, stable employment experience and parenting-time orders into standard child-support enforcement policy.
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- How Fathers Help their Children DevelopMoney and Love, pp. 130 - 149Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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