Original sentence: ) that refers to a father who has left his children in the care of their mother but refuses to pay court-ordered child support, or monetary payments meant to go toward the welfare of the children.A deadbeat dad is a pejorative term (primarily U.Many U.Many observers blame the complexities of the court system for allowing such occurrences to happen, for it is difficult for a mother to successfully force the father to pay child support, because the father can easily avoid the payments.Such practices have been declared illegal in all fifty U.states have passed "deadbeat dad laws" that allows the Department of Motor Vehicles in the state to use its information to find the "deadbeat dad" and call him to account for his actions
Edited sentence: Academic and governmental research on the topic has found the opposite to be the case.Braver also found that when they are employed, virtually all divorced fathers pay the child support they owe and that the number of arrearages “estimated” by the government is derived not from any actual statistics but from surveys.Deadbeat dad is term used by special interest groups and the Democratic Party to demonized and then criminalize divorced fathers.In his unsuccessful campaign for president, Al Gore promised harsher measures against deadbeat dads, including sending more to jail.In the 'Myth of the Deadbeat Dad', Dr.In the absence of empirical evidence, the deadbeat dad is best viewed as an urban myth or perhaps a hoax to support political agendas.No government or academic study has ever demonstrated the existence of such a phenomenon.Other studies have reached similar or more dramatic conclusions.Overwhelmingly it is mothers, not fathers, who are walking away from marriages and thus separating children from their fathers.Stephen Baskerville wrote, “In the largest federally funded study ever conducted on the subject, psychologist Sanford Braver demonstrated that very few married fathers abandon their children.The Clinton administration passed several child-support programs, including the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act, the Directory of New Hires, and the Federal Case Registry.There is no empirical evidence that large numbers of fathers voluntarily abandon their children.This is a highly pejorative term, used primarily in the United States that refers to a father who has children in the care of their mother but does not pay court-ordered child support, or monetary payments meant to go toward the financial support of the children