This group would probably also speak out against deadbeat dads who don’t pay child support, and never see the irony in that. “A billboard on Interstate 40 West near Winston-Salem is angering many who say its message is offensive to women. The board reads: “Real men provide. Real women appreciate it.” The owner of…
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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 different from today. And as the nation’s social, economic and demographic landscape has shifted, the…
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By Vicki Turetsky Center for Law and Social Policy Over the last decade, an unregulated industry related to the alternative financial services industry has grown rapidly, primarily around the internet, to aggressively and sometimes deceptively market child support collection services to mostly low-income single mothers who cannot afford an attorney. Some of the largest private…
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