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Making parents pay: The unintended consequences of charging parents for foster care
2017
Children and youth services review
Most families in the child protective services system also interact with the child support enforcement system. This study exploits a natural experiment in Wisconsin, created by the state's large regional variation in child support referral policy, to estimate a potentially important effect of child support enforcement on the duration of out-of-home foster care placement. The effect we examine is whether requiring parents to pay support to offset the costs of foster care delays children's
doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.10.018
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