Those are still our goals today. The needs of children and families haven't changed at all since 1975. Indeed, they've become greater. So many forces are tearing at the family, from poverty to violence to fatherless homes. It doesn't have to be that way.
Child support is about much more than collecting overdue payments.
It's about more than who owes what to whom. It's not only about making certain that absent fathers, or absent mothers, abide by the law, or do what's right and what's fair by the children they helped create. It's about real lives. Children need to be brought up with both parents involved in their lives, even if the parents are not living together. Yes, we want absent parents to start sending those checks back home to their families.