Byline: Los Angeles Times
Opening a major new front in efforts to discourage out-of-wedlock births and increase collection of child support, the administration's welfare reform task force will urge that states be required to identify the fathers of virtually all children born outside of marriage.
The group, on the verge of completing recommendations to present to President Clinton, has decided to make stringent new federal standards on establishing paternity a centerpiece of the task force's proposals for implementing Clinton's campaign promise to crack down on "deadbeat dads" who fail to pay child support.
It also symbolizes the task force's …
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