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By Ronald B. Mincy

ISBN-10: 0199371148

ISBN-13: 9780199371143

Maligned as "deadbeat dads" or sexually and financially irresponsible inner-city fathers and missed in discussions of poverty and family members coverage, economically susceptible nonresident fathers are a vastly misunderstood inhabitants.

Failing Our Fathers summarizes the newest quantitative and qualitative study, and undertakes new analyses to fill in vital gaps, to supply a complete photo of who those fathers are, what sorts of relationships they've got with their households and kids, and the demanding situations they face assembly what their family and taxpayers count on from them. the nice majority of those males see their little ones usually, regardless of the monetary, criminal, and extra-legal limitations they face. in addition to requiring fathers to aid their youngsters, we needs to allow them to take action by way of supplementing their gains and aiding their co-parenting, in ways in which parallel how we require and let weak unmarried moms to help their childrens. The e-book lays out particular reforms required to accomplish this objective in addition to guidance for these assets for economically weak nonresident fathers.

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But he still reflects that having children and watching them come into the world was a privilege. Franco takes pride in the fact that he watched them grow up and enjoyed sharing activities with them and helping them. ” 2 Employment On top of the long-term erosion of male earnings, which we discussed in Chapter 1, the recession of 2007–2009 was like a full blast of wind in the face of a biker already peddling furiously to climb up a long and steep hill. Male joblessness rose more than female joblessness during every recession since the early 1980s.

According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, 3 of 10 ex-offenders are arrested within six months of release. Six months later, this figure rises to seven of nine. Since unemployed workers took almost 33 weeks to find another job, this means that the average prisoner would be rearrested before he found a regular job. In three years, more than two of every three ex-offenders faced arrest. Since one spell of incarceration often turns into another, once incarcerated, inmates lose contact with their children, but they also lose contact with friends and relatives who can help them find regular jobs.

Finding a new job was difficult for most Americans who were laid off during the recession. 6 The Heldrich Center’s record of the consequences of the recession began in March 2009, just three months before the recession officially ended. 8 Just as the unemployment rate of men rose to higher 20 Failing Our Fathers levels than the unemployment rate of women, men who were laid off also found it more difficult to find new jobs than women. Similarly, some laid-off working-poor fathers found another job not long after being laid off, only to be laid off again within a few months.

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