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The NRFC Library is a collection of materials to build a knowledge base around fathers, fatherhood, and operating a Responsible Fatherhood program. It also houses all resources created by the NRFC, including fact sheets, PSAs, and past webinars.

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EITC Expansion Proposals: What’s at Stake for Young Workers.

Recognizing the importance of the EITC in lifting low-wage workers out of poverty, there has been strong bi-partisan support for expanding the credit to childless workers (including non-custodial parents) and younger workers. A number of proposals to expand the EITC would do just that. The EITC can…

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Confining Fatherhood: Incarceration and Paternal Involvement among Non-resident White, African American and Latino Fathers.

We examine the consequences of incarceration for non-resident White, Latino, and African American fathers' contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we found that fathers' current incarceration presented serious obstacles to maintaining contact with children and interfered with the establishment of informal financial support agreements with mothers. Recent and past incarceration were strongly and negatively associated with how often non-Latino White fathers saw their children, while having a…

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Incarceration and Paternal Involvement Among Non-Resident White, African American and Latino Fathers.

This paper examines the consequences of incarceration for non-resident White, Latino, and African American fathers' contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements three years after the child's birth. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, fathers' current incarceration is found to present serious obstacles to maintaining contact with children, as well as to interfere with the establishment of informal but not formal financial support agreements with mothers. The effects of past incarceration, however, vary significantly by race and…

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