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Journal Article Data on their children's adoptions and their own subsequent adjustment were provided by 125 birthfathers. Paternal age at the child's birth, involvement in the adoption process, and the major reason for adoption determined the birthfather's current views of adoption. Search for the child was correlated with hopes of retrieval. Loss of the child remained an unresolved issue independent of other areas of functioning. Legal and procedural implications are discussed. (Author abstract)
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Journal Article This State Legislative Report examines the special problems associated with establishing paternity and collecting child support from teenage parents. The report reviews public policy options for legislators and is divided into three major sections: establishing paternity, child support enforcement, and state legislative policy and program responses. Paternity establishment and child support enforcement are particularly difficult with the teenage population. Establishing paternity can be a problem because teenage mothers often refuse to cooperate with state child support enforcement personnel…
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Journal Article The author maintains that too little effort has been exerted by health, social work, and education professionals in the arena of out-of-wedlock births to speak for the economic and psychological benefits that attach to the child's right to legal paternity. In the large majority of instances, no paternity adjudication is sought, and these children are deprived of their rights. (Author abstract)
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Journal Article In 1983 black adolescent mothers have accounted for nearly one in four births. The social work response has been limited in scope and routinely has excluded the partners of young mothers. Until recently, service providers viewed black adolescent fathers either as a cause of the problem of as a partial solution in their assigned role as a financial provider. This article looks at the need to focus more attention on the well being of black adolescent males as a means of providing more support for the whole family. The authors stress that the well-being of black males is threatened in several…
