RESEARCH • COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE • PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
Research That Starts With Lived Experience and Follows the Evidence
We organize public data, community experience, policy questions, and measurable outcomes to help fathers, families, institutions, and policymakers understand what is happening and what should change.
Following the Data. Championing Dads. Advancing Justice.
The proposed Massachusetts Family Court Outcomes Study will organize public data, parent experience, policy questions, and outcome measures to identify patterns and support responsible reform.
Research Priorities
- Massachusetts family court outcomes and case duration
- Parenting time, shared parenting, and access to children
- Child support, employment, debt, and economic stability
- Housing barriers affecting family connection
- Father mental health and service access
- Experiences of adult children and both parents
- Availability and quality of father-centered services
Ethical Participation
Research and evaluation must clearly explain who is conducting the work, why information is collected, how long participation takes, whether recording occurs, who can access the data, and how privacy will be protected. Participation must be voluntary and separate from service eligibility or legal outcomes.
Community Accountability
We aim to return findings to the fathers and communities who contributed them, publish understandable summaries, name limitations, and separate evidence from advocacy claims.
Research Partnerships
We welcome collaboration with colleges, evaluators, policy institutes, fatherhood organizations, and agencies committed to transparent and ethical research.
Research That Builds a Public Record
Father On The Move turns recurring concerns into defined research questions, source inventories, responsibility maps, verified findings, and transparent follow-up.
Housing as a Research and Learning Priority
Father On The Move seeks to understand how housing instability interacts with parenting time, overnight contact, employment, child support, credit, transportation, mental health, court involvement, and access to father-centered services.
Any future housing-based research must remain separate from tenancy and service eligibility. Participation must be voluntary, clearly explained, based on informed consent, protected from retaliation, de-identified whenever possible, and reported responsibly in aggregate.
POLICY & LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH
Massachusetts Child Support Reform: Bills, Policy Problems, Reforms, and Outcomes
This research view organizes major Massachusetts child-support proposals and guideline changes across legislative sessions so readers can compare the problem being addressed, the proposed response, and what happened next.
How to use this: Read across each session to compare bills and guideline activity, the policy issue being discussed, proposed or adopted reforms, and the recorded outcome. This is a research aid, not a statement that every proposal became law.