Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primary role of government child support offices just to collect money?" Mincy asked. "Can government instead help bring families together...
Because there was little chance the absent father had any means to pay child support, departments decided to focus on middle-class families, where significant money could be recovered, he said...
...child support departments are encountering a new sort of fathers, ones who often lack education, employment skills and have criminal records...
This presents the new and important challenge of helping poor fathers out of poverty and into situations where they can help to support their families, said Jeffery M. Johnson, president of the National Center of Nonprofit Strategic Planning and Community Leadership, a group researching and trying to alleviate the problem of unmarried urban fathers...
...What it does for the first time is puts before child support [agencies] fathers who don't have money," Johnson said. "What the heck do you do with...