Child Support Failure

Title: Failure to Pay Child Support

My mother and father divorced in 1990. My mother was awarded “conservatorship” of my sister and I, while our father was awarded visitation and ordered to pay child support of four hundred dollars a month. Which was a reduced amount agreed upon by my parents when they separated. My father quickly became what is known as a “Deadbeat Dad” and the full financial responsibility falling onto my mother.

In 2001 Mark Donald of the Dallas Observer wrote an article “Deadbeating the System” which was on the subject of my parent’s child support case; in which he noted that my father “was more than $46,000 behind in his child support obligation.” “There are still those seeking child support for their children

Even though failure to pay child support is considered a crime against the United States and is termed as criminal nonsupport. States have been in the past unable to show any signs of being able to meet this increased demand on their child support enforcement system. With an estimated 36% of all child support cases in the U.S. involve more than one state. Delinquent parents are able to flee across state lines to avoid child support obligations.

As a result 50% of all white children growing up in single parent households, who do not receive support, live at or below the poverty level. 60% of all Hispanic children growing up in single parent households live at or below the poverty level. 70% of all black children growing up in single parent households live at or below the poverty

There are over 1 million children in new divorces each year. 49% family households contain children under the age of 18. 27% of family households have children living with only one parent. 9% of all households run by single moms. There are 2.1 million (5% of parent-child families) single fathers raising a child in their own. There are 9 million females. There are an estimated number of 1,075,000 of children involved in divorce. There are 20 million (28%) of children under the age of 18 living with only one parent. There are 200,000 fathers that are raising three or more children by themselves. 1% of children living with a single fathers earning are under 12,500. Those living with their mother’s income are 41% who receive fewer than 12,500. It is apparent that immediate and firm action needs to be taken considering that 45% of all children don’t receive total