Governing: TANF Focus on Fatherhood

Father Time

There’s a growing focus in welfare policy on a long-neglected part of the problem: fatherhood.

It’s a normal weekday morning in the family courtroom at Baltimore City circuit court. The docket is crowded. First up: a man who has seven children and isn’t making his support payments to any of them. Three of the mothers are present, and they are indignant. One of them says she’s seen the man driving around in a new Jeep Cherokee “He was in the Navy,” says another. “He has a good job.”

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