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Statistical Brief: Who’s Supporting the Kids?
Statistical Brief: Who’s Supporting the Kids?
Report Number: SB/91-18
More and more children are living in homes without fathers. By spring 1990, 10 million women aged 15 and over maintained families with children under age 21 whose fathers were absent from the home. About 5.7 million had been awarded child support, leaving a large number without financial support from the children's father. About 3.2 million of these families — 1 in 3 lived in poverty.
This Brief examines the characteristics of women receiving child support payments, the amount they received, and visitation rights and residence of absent fathers. This Brief does not provide data on men with children from an absent mother. The questions were not asked of these men as the survey sample size was not large enough to provide reliable data for this universe. Data come from the April 1990 supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), which collected income data covering 1989. The survey was conducted by the Bureau of the Census and sponsored, in part, by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child Support Enforcement.
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Page Last Revised - October 8, 2021
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