In addition to affecting the lives of millions of women, welfare reform has ramifications for the men who fathered their children. Increasingly, legislatures are looking to child support payments from nonresidential fathers to keep lowincome motherheaded households off welfare and out of poverty. Welfare reform has been shaped by beliefs that mothers can remain dependent on welfare, supporting their families primarily on public moneys; they can or rise to selfsufficiency through entry into lowwage labor. It has also been affected by beliefs that fathers are not paying their fare share — and they can and they should.
This paper explores the work and residential status of lowincome, nonresidential fathers, men often portrayed as irresponsible deadbeats who ignore their responsibilities to the children they fathered. It represents the first level of analysis on a sample of 85 fathers. Future work will include more detailed consideration of fathers' budgets, as well as their......

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Title: Low-Income, Non-Residential Fathers:
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