This report, based on the most current data available, is jointly published by the National Center for Youth Law, the Child Support Reform Initiative and Children Now. The Child Support Project of the National Center for Youth Law seeks to improve child support enforcement in California through legislative and administrative advocacy, litigation and education. The National Center for Youth Law advocates nationally on behalf of children affected by poverty. The Child Support Reform Initiative is a project of Public Media Center. The Initiative works to improve public understanding of the problems of child support collection and to mobilize an active constituency advocating child support reform.
Children Now is a nonpartisan, independent voice for America's children.
Focusing particular attention on the needs of children who are poor or at risk, our mission is to improve the lives of America's children by making them a top priority across the nation. The publishers wish to thank the Rosenberg Foundation for generously supporting our work to improve child support collection. More than half of all children in the U.S. will spend some of their childhood in a single-parent household. Child support, payments from nonresident parents to their children, is the key to their financial security. By federal mandate, each state has a child support program to collect support for these children.