Maureen R Waller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 74942 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maureen R Waller |
| NOMBRES | Maureen R |
| APELLIDO | Waller |
| FIRMA | WALLER M R |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7381-1902 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 366 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Fathers’ Socioeconomic Precarity and Mothers’ Ability to Make Ends Meet
Economic and policy changes since Making Ends Meet was first published have fundamentally restructured the social safety net available to single mothers, while simultaneously eroding the economic position of the men with whom they share children. This study examines the degree of socioeconomic precarity among nonresident fathers and its implications for the economic well-being of mothers in the post-welfare reform era, using data from the Future …
Predation and the Disproportionate Risk of Driver's License Suspensions in Economically and Racially Marginalized Communities
Millions of people have their driver's licenses suspended each year when they do not pay traffic fines or appear in court, with significant and compounding consequences for their lives. The increased use of fines and fees has been likened to a predatory system that exploits the most vulnerable groups to fill state and local budget gaps. States have begun limiting suspensions for unpaid traffic tickets out of economic and racial equity concerns, b…
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color
Objective Using a survey sample comprised of predominantly low‐income fathers of color, we examine whether child support debt (arrears) is associated with fathers' poor physical health, depression, and material hardship 9 years after their child's birth. Background About 70% of the $113.5 billion in outstanding arrears is held by men earning $10,000 or less, and an emerging body of research suggests arrears can negatively impact economically disa…
The Minimum Wage and Fathers’ Residence with Children
Providing After Prison
Allison Dwyer Emory a, Lenna Nepomnyaschy b, Maureen R. Waller c, Daniel P. Miller d, Alexandra Haralampoudis e, Providing After Prison: Nonresident Fathers’ Formal and Informal Contributions to Children, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 84-112
Using a Narrative Approach to Analyze Longitudinal Mixed Methods Data
Despite growing interest in longitudinal mixed methods research designs, more strategies for analyzing and integrating these data are needed. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by presenting a novel narrative approach to data analysis in longitudinal studies. Our approach involves the transformation of longitudinal survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study into narrative case histories. We use qu…
The Role of Fathers in Reducing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
There are well-established disparities in children’s socioemotional well-being by family socioeconomic status (SES). Although evidence suggests that father involvement can improve child outcomes, no studies have considered whether father involvement among low-SES children can reduce such gaps. We use 10 years of panel data on children born in large US cities to explore the associations between father involvement and behavior problems among 15-yea…
Father Involvement and Socioeconomic Disparities in Child Academic Outcomes
ObjectiveThis article explores whether father involvement can reduce socioeconomic disparities in child academic outcomes.BackgroundAn emerging body of literature points to the benefits to children of involvement by low-socioeconomic status (SES) fathers. Research has not systematically investigated whether differences in father involvement can account for SES-based disparities in child outcomes.MethodThis study used data from 12,030 unique child…
Getting the Court in Your Business
The child support program reaches half of poor children in the United States, and recent policy proposals would incorporate parenting time into all initial child support orders. Despite the importance and scope of these proposed changes for unmarried parents, research about how parents interpret the decision to set up parenting time orders in family court is limited. Qualitative evidence from individual and group interviews shows that unmarried m…
My Baby's Father
About one-third of births in the United States occur to unmarried parents. Evidence suggests that children who grow up in families headed by single parents have worse socioeconomic outcomes than those raised by married parents. "Fatherlessness" has become a byword in public debate and policymaking, yet fundamental questions about unmarried parents and their ideas of paternal responsibility remain unanswered.In My Baby's Father, Maureen R. Waller …
Money, Time, or Something Else? Measuring Nonresident Fathers' Informal and In-Kind Contributions
Despite efforts to improve the measurement of low-income, nonresident fathers' economic contributions to children in large-scale surveys, limited research has examined how survey measures of informal and in-kind support relate to other standard indicators of fathering. Drawing on data from a large sample of separated parents ( N = 1,381) and matched nonresident father-child pairs ( n = 846) in the Fragile Families Study, our results show that in-…
Visitation Orders, Family Courts, and Fragile Families
Despite proposals to make parenting time a part of all new child support orders, limited research has examined why some unmarried are more likely than others to establish legal visitation agreements. This mixed-methods study draws on qualitative data collected from unmarried mothers and fathers living in New York (N = 70) to develop hypotheses about the contexts in which parents set up visitation orders, which are then tested in a large sample of…
Indebted Relationships
Low-income, nonresident fathers owe a disproportionate amount of child support arrears, creating potential challenges for these fathers and their family relationships. This article uses mediation analysis to provide new evidence about how and why child support debt is related to paternal involvement using information from 1,017 nonresident fathers in the Fragile Families Study. Results show that child support arrears are associated with nonreside…
Taxing the Poor
In the last decades, the American state has radically enlarged the array of policy instruments utilized in today’s governance of the poor. Most recently, through a process of outright “seizure,” the state now exacts revenue from low-income families, partners, and friends of those individuals who in very large numbers cycle in and out of the nation’s courts, jails, and prisons. In an analysis of legislation, judicial cases, policy regulations, blo…
Who Is the Residential Parent? Understanding Discrepancies in Unmarried Parents' Reports
Research examining parental reports of children's living arrangements has often relied on information about legally ordered custody agreements following divorce. This analysis used data from matched pairs of parents (N = 1,156) in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study who live apart to compare mother and father reports of their child's residence 5 years after a nonmarital birth. The authors found that over one third of unmarried parents …
Viewing Low-Income Fathers' Ties to Families through a Cultural Lens
Policy makers have become increasingly interested in addressing the cultural dimensions of child support, "responsible fatherhood," and marriage in poor communities. However, policy studies have primarily focused on identifying economic determinants of these issues, with a substantial amount of variation in their statistical models left unexplained. This article draws on in-depth interviews the author conducted with disadvantaged mothers and fath…
Family Man in the Other America
This analysis draws on longitudinal, qualitative interviews with disadvantaged mothers and fathers who participated in the Fragile Families Study (a U.S. birth cohort study) to examine how issues related to men's employment, social support, skills, and motivation facilitated their care of young children in different relationship contexts. Interviews with parents indicate that while some motivated and skilled men actively chose to become caregiver…
The Link Between Couples’ Pregnancy Intentions And Behavior
Future research on pregnancy intentions should incorporate both men and women. Understanding men's pregnancy intentions and their associations with early support of mothers may inform discussions of how to encourage men's involvement in family planning, prenatal health care and parenting
Understanding “Power Talk
This project expands upon social construction studies by critically examining the discourse patterns of two very different groups as they discuss their problems with the child support enforcement system: fathers' rights members (mostly white, middle class fathers who are organizing for emotional support and to reform the child support system) and fathers with children on welfare (mostly poor, African-American fathers). We use standard, qualitativ…
Confining Fatherhood
The authors examine the consequences of incarceration for nonresident White, Latino, and African American fathers' contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, they found that fathers' current incarceration presented serious obstacles to maintaining contact with children and interfered with the establishment of informal financial support agreements wi…
The risk of divorce as a barrier to marriage among parents of young children
Fathers' Risk Factors in Fragile Families
We use longitudinal survey and qualitative information from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine how risk factors such as physical abuse, problematic substance use, and incarceration among unmarried fathers in the study are related to fathers' early involvement with their children. The survey results indicate that nearly half of fathers have at least one risk factor and that each risk is negatively associated with paternal in…
His" and "her" marriage expectations
This article uses couple-level data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N= 2,263) to investigate factors associated with unmarried parents' expectations about marriage and the association between their expectations and subsequent union transitions. In most couples, both partners expect to marry, and their shared expectations are the strongest predictor of marriage and separation following their child's birth. Although men's expec…
Effective child support policy for low‐income families
Since 1984, policymakers have increasingly turned their attention to reforming the child support system. Despite this attention, the child support system has often failed to increase the economic security of single-parent families. This article analyzes findings from recent qualitative studies to explain why the child support system breaks down for so many low-income families. This research suggests that parents often prefer informal arrangements…
Effective child support policy for low-income families
Since 1984, policymakers have increasingly turned their attention to reforming the child support system. Despite this attention, the child support system has often failed to increase the economic security of single-parent families. This article analyzes findings from recent qualitative studies to explain why the child support system breaks down for so many low-income families. This research suggests that parents often prefer informal arrangements…
His" and "her" marriage expectations
This article uses couple-level data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N= 2,263) to investigate factors associated with unmarried parents' expectations about marriage and the association between their expectations and subsequent union transitions. In most couples, both partners expect to marry, and their shared expectations are the strongest predictor of marriage and separation following their child's birth. Although men's expec…
Taxing the Poor
In the last decades, the American state has radically enlarged the array of policy instruments utilized in today’s governance of the poor. Most recently, through a process of outright “seizure,” the state now exacts revenue from low-income families, partners, and friends of those individuals who in very large numbers cycle in and out of the nation’s courts, jails, and prisons. In an analysis of legislation, judicial cases, policy regulations, blo…
Confining Fatherhood
The authors examine the consequences of incarceration for nonresident White, Latino, and African American fathers' contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, they found that fathers' current incarceration presented serious obstacles to maintaining contact with children and interfered with the establishment of informal financial support agreements wi…
Fathers' Risk Factors in Fragile Families
We use longitudinal survey and qualitative information from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine how risk factors such as physical abuse, problematic substance use, and incarceration among unmarried fathers in the study are related to fathers' early involvement with their children. The survey results indicate that nearly half of fathers have at least one risk factor and that each risk is negatively associated with paternal in…
Cultural and moral boundaries in the United States
Indebted Relationships
Low-income, nonresident fathers owe a disproportionate amount of child support arrears, creating potential challenges for these fathers and their family relationships. This article uses mediation analysis to provide new evidence about how and why child support debt is related to paternal involvement using information from 1,017 nonresident fathers in the Fragile Families Study. Results show that child support arrears are associated with nonreside…
High hopes
Money, Time, or Something Else? Measuring Nonresident Fathers' Informal and In-Kind Contributions
Despite efforts to improve the measurement of low-income, nonresident fathers' economic contributions to children in large-scale surveys, limited research has examined how survey measures of informal and in-kind support relate to other standard indicators of fathering. Drawing on data from a large sample of separated parents ( N = 1,381) and matched nonresident father-child pairs ( n = 846) in the Fragile Families Study, our results show that in-…
The Link Between Couples’ Pregnancy Intentions And Behavior
Future research on pregnancy intentions should incorporate both men and women. Understanding men's pregnancy intentions and their associations with early support of mothers may inform discussions of how to encourage men's involvement in family planning, prenatal health care and parenting
Family Man in the Other America
This analysis draws on longitudinal, qualitative interviews with disadvantaged mothers and fathers who participated in the Fragile Families Study (a U.S. birth cohort study) to examine how issues related to men's employment, social support, skills, and motivation facilitated their care of young children in different relationship contexts. Interviews with parents indicate that while some motivated and skilled men actively chose to become caregiver…
Providing After Prison
Allison Dwyer Emory a, Lenna Nepomnyaschy b, Maureen R. Waller c, Daniel P. Miller d, Alexandra Haralampoudis e, Providing After Prison: Nonresident Fathers’ Formal and Informal Contributions to Children, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 84-112
Who Is the Residential Parent? Understanding Discrepancies in Unmarried Parents' Reports
Research examining parental reports of children's living arrangements has often relied on information about legally ordered custody agreements following divorce. This analysis used data from matched pairs of parents (N = 1,156) in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study who live apart to compare mother and father reports of their child's residence 5 years after a nonmarital birth. The authors found that over one third of unmarried parents …
The risk of divorce as a barrier to marriage among parents of young children
The Role of Fathers in Reducing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
There are well-established disparities in children’s socioemotional well-being by family socioeconomic status (SES). Although evidence suggests that father involvement can improve child outcomes, no studies have considered whether father involvement among low-SES children can reduce such gaps. We use 10 years of panel data on children born in large US cities to explore the associations between father involvement and behavior problems among 15-yea…
Father Involvement and Socioeconomic Disparities in Child Academic Outcomes
ObjectiveThis article explores whether father involvement can reduce socioeconomic disparities in child academic outcomes.BackgroundAn emerging body of literature points to the benefits to children of involvement by low-socioeconomic status (SES) fathers. Research has not systematically investigated whether differences in father involvement can account for SES-based disparities in child outcomes.MethodThis study used data from 12,030 unique child…
Using a Narrative Approach to Analyze Longitudinal Mixed Methods Data
Despite growing interest in longitudinal mixed methods research designs, more strategies for analyzing and integrating these data are needed. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by presenting a novel narrative approach to data analysis in longitudinal studies. Our approach involves the transformation of longitudinal survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study into narrative case histories. We use qu…
Viewing Low-Income Fathers' Ties to Families through a Cultural Lens
Policy makers have become increasingly interested in addressing the cultural dimensions of child support, "responsible fatherhood," and marriage in poor communities. However, policy studies have primarily focused on identifying economic determinants of these issues, with a substantial amount of variation in their statistical models left unexplained. This article draws on in-depth interviews the author conducted with disadvantaged mothers and fath…
Understanding “Power Talk
This project expands upon social construction studies by critically examining the discourse patterns of two very different groups as they discuss their problems with the child support enforcement system: fathers' rights members (mostly white, middle class fathers who are organizing for emotional support and to reform the child support system) and fathers with children on welfare (mostly poor, African-American fathers). We use standard, qualitativ…
Predation and the Disproportionate Risk of Driver's License Suspensions in Economically and Racially Marginalized Communities
Millions of people have their driver's licenses suspended each year when they do not pay traffic fines or appear in court, with significant and compounding consequences for their lives. The increased use of fines and fees has been likened to a predatory system that exploits the most vulnerable groups to fill state and local budget gaps. States have begun limiting suspensions for unpaid traffic tickets out of economic and racial equity concerns, b…
Getting the Court in Your Business
The child support program reaches half of poor children in the United States, and recent policy proposals would incorporate parenting time into all initial child support orders. Despite the importance and scope of these proposed changes for unmarried parents, research about how parents interpret the decision to set up parenting time orders in family court is limited. Qualitative evidence from individual and group interviews shows that unmarried m…
Visitation Orders, Family Courts, and Fragile Families
Despite proposals to make parenting time a part of all new child support orders, limited research has examined why some unmarried are more likely than others to establish legal visitation agreements. This mixed-methods study draws on qualitative data collected from unmarried mothers and fathers living in New York (N = 70) to develop hypotheses about the contexts in which parents set up visitation orders, which are then tested in a large sample of…
Cultural and moral boundaries in the United States
Effective child support policy for low‐income families
Since 1984, policymakers have increasingly turned their attention to reforming the child support system. Despite this attention, the child support system has often failed to increase the economic security of single-parent families. This article analyzes findings from recent qualitative studies to explain why the child support system breaks down for so many low-income families. This research suggests that parents often prefer informal arrangements…
Effective child support policy for low-income families
Since 1984, policymakers have increasingly turned their attention to reforming the child support system. Despite this attention, the child support system has often failed to increase the economic security of single-parent families. This article analyzes findings from recent qualitative studies to explain why the child support system breaks down for so many low-income families. This research suggests that parents often prefer informal arrangements…
High hopes
His" and "her" marriage expectations
This article uses couple-level data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N= 2,263) to investigate factors associated with unmarried parents' expectations about marriage and the association between their expectations and subsequent union transitions. In most couples, both partners expect to marry, and their shared expectations are the strongest predictor of marriage and separation following their child's birth. Although men's expec…
Fathers' Risk Factors in Fragile Families
We use longitudinal survey and qualitative information from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine how risk factors such as physical abuse, problematic substance use, and incarceration among unmarried fathers in the study are related to fathers' early involvement with their children. The survey results indicate that nearly half of fathers have at least one risk factor and that each risk is negatively associated with paternal in…
The Link Between Couples’ Pregnancy Intentions And Behavior
Future research on pregnancy intentions should incorporate both men and women. Understanding men's pregnancy intentions and their associations with early support of mothers may inform discussions of how to encourage men's involvement in family planning, prenatal health care and parenting
Understanding “Power Talk
This project expands upon social construction studies by critically examining the discourse patterns of two very different groups as they discuss their problems with the child support enforcement system: fathers' rights members (mostly white, middle class fathers who are organizing for emotional support and to reform the child support system) and fathers with children on welfare (mostly poor, African-American fathers). We use standard, qualitativ…
Confining Fatherhood
The authors examine the consequences of incarceration for nonresident White, Latino, and African American fathers' contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, they found that fathers' current incarceration presented serious obstacles to maintaining contact with children and interfered with the establishment of informal financial support agreements wi…
The risk of divorce as a barrier to marriage among parents of young children
Family Man in the Other America
This analysis draws on longitudinal, qualitative interviews with disadvantaged mothers and fathers who participated in the Fragile Families Study (a U.S. birth cohort study) to examine how issues related to men's employment, social support, skills, and motivation facilitated their care of young children in different relationship contexts. Interviews with parents indicate that while some motivated and skilled men actively chose to become caregiver…
Viewing Low-Income Fathers' Ties to Families through a Cultural Lens
Policy makers have become increasingly interested in addressing the cultural dimensions of child support, "responsible fatherhood," and marriage in poor communities. However, policy studies have primarily focused on identifying economic determinants of these issues, with a substantial amount of variation in their statistical models left unexplained. This article draws on in-depth interviews the author conducted with disadvantaged mothers and fath…
Who Is the Residential Parent? Understanding Discrepancies in Unmarried Parents' Reports
Research examining parental reports of children's living arrangements has often relied on information about legally ordered custody agreements following divorce. This analysis used data from matched pairs of parents (N = 1,156) in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study who live apart to compare mother and father reports of their child's residence 5 years after a nonmarital birth. The authors found that over one third of unmarried parents …
Taxing the Poor
In the last decades, the American state has radically enlarged the array of policy instruments utilized in today’s governance of the poor. Most recently, through a process of outright “seizure,” the state now exacts revenue from low-income families, partners, and friends of those individuals who in very large numbers cycle in and out of the nation’s courts, jails, and prisons. In an analysis of legislation, judicial cases, policy regulations, blo…
Indebted Relationships
Low-income, nonresident fathers owe a disproportionate amount of child support arrears, creating potential challenges for these fathers and their family relationships. This article uses mediation analysis to provide new evidence about how and why child support debt is related to paternal involvement using information from 1,017 nonresident fathers in the Fragile Families Study. Results show that child support arrears are associated with nonreside…
My Baby's Father
About one-third of births in the United States occur to unmarried parents. Evidence suggests that children who grow up in families headed by single parents have worse socioeconomic outcomes than those raised by married parents. "Fatherlessness" has become a byword in public debate and policymaking, yet fundamental questions about unmarried parents and their ideas of paternal responsibility remain unanswered.In My Baby's Father, Maureen R. Waller …
Money, Time, or Something Else? Measuring Nonresident Fathers' Informal and In-Kind Contributions
Despite efforts to improve the measurement of low-income, nonresident fathers' economic contributions to children in large-scale surveys, limited research has examined how survey measures of informal and in-kind support relate to other standard indicators of fathering. Drawing on data from a large sample of separated parents ( N = 1,381) and matched nonresident father-child pairs ( n = 846) in the Fragile Families Study, our results show that in-…
Visitation Orders, Family Courts, and Fragile Families
Despite proposals to make parenting time a part of all new child support orders, limited research has examined why some unmarried are more likely than others to establish legal visitation agreements. This mixed-methods study draws on qualitative data collected from unmarried mothers and fathers living in New York (N = 70) to develop hypotheses about the contexts in which parents set up visitation orders, which are then tested in a large sample of…
The Minimum Wage and Fathers’ Residence with Children
Providing After Prison
Allison Dwyer Emory a, Lenna Nepomnyaschy b, Maureen R. Waller c, Daniel P. Miller d, Alexandra Haralampoudis e, Providing After Prison: Nonresident Fathers’ Formal and Informal Contributions to Children, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 84-112
Using a Narrative Approach to Analyze Longitudinal Mixed Methods Data
Despite growing interest in longitudinal mixed methods research designs, more strategies for analyzing and integrating these data are needed. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by presenting a novel narrative approach to data analysis in longitudinal studies. Our approach involves the transformation of longitudinal survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study into narrative case histories. We use qu…
The Role of Fathers in Reducing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
There are well-established disparities in children’s socioemotional well-being by family socioeconomic status (SES). Although evidence suggests that father involvement can improve child outcomes, no studies have considered whether father involvement among low-SES children can reduce such gaps. We use 10 years of panel data on children born in large US cities to explore the associations between father involvement and behavior problems among 15-yea…
Father Involvement and Socioeconomic Disparities in Child Academic Outcomes
ObjectiveThis article explores whether father involvement can reduce socioeconomic disparities in child academic outcomes.BackgroundAn emerging body of literature points to the benefits to children of involvement by low-socioeconomic status (SES) fathers. Research has not systematically investigated whether differences in father involvement can account for SES-based disparities in child outcomes.MethodThis study used data from 12,030 unique child…
Getting the Court in Your Business
The child support program reaches half of poor children in the United States, and recent policy proposals would incorporate parenting time into all initial child support orders. Despite the importance and scope of these proposed changes for unmarried parents, research about how parents interpret the decision to set up parenting time orders in family court is limited. Qualitative evidence from individual and group interviews shows that unmarried m…
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color
Objective Using a survey sample comprised of predominantly low‐income fathers of color, we examine whether child support debt (arrears) is associated with fathers' poor physical health, depression, and material hardship 9 years after their child's birth. Background About 70% of the $113.5 billion in outstanding arrears is held by men earning $10,000 or less, and an emerging body of research suggests arrears can negatively impact economically disa…
Psychology (21 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (18 obras) · Developmental psychology (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (12 obras) · Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (10 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras)