Child Support

Children deserve support from both of their parents. Child support is a vital source of income that helps many families escape poverty, provide for their children's needs, and avoid a return to welfare.

Receipt of child support has been shown to reduce poverty and economic hardship, and even to promote children's achievement in school. When poor single-mother families receive child support, studies show that it provides 31 percent of the families' income.

Last year, the child support enforcement program served 17 million children and collected $24 bill in owed child support. Child support enforcement reinforces the responsibility of non-custodial parents to provide financial and medical support for their children.

In addition, an analysis of recent Census data by the National Women's Law Center found that many low-income parents depend on child support as a key element of their economic security. In 2005, poor custodial parents who received child support received an average of $3,372, which made up 43 percent of their income.

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