The 1996, Welfare Reform laws Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Act placed an increase burden on states to establish and enforce child support. Families being limited on welfare benefits, in addition to the current working poor are most in need of adequate and regular child support payments to become and remain self- sufficient. States have been in the past unable and show no signs of being able to meet this increased demand on their child support enforcement system.
Delinquent parents are able to flee across state lines to avoid child support obligations.
Receipt of child support is associated with significantly higher expenditures on children than from any other source of income.