From NPR: http://www.npr.org/2015/11/19/456632896/how-u-s-parents-racked-up-113-billion-in-child-support-debt When the U.S. child support collection system was set up in 1975 under President Gerald Ford — a child of divorce whose father failed to pay court-ordered child support — the country, and the typical family, looked very…
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Child Support Enforcement and Guidelines are Unrealistic
By Joe Jones ( jj****@cf**.org ) – the founder of the Center for Urban Families in Baltimore and Joan Entmacher Joe Jones ( je********@nw**.org ) is the vice president for Family Economic Security at the National Women’s Law Center. Raising a…