Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 23, Chart 1
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-23, Support and Alimony, various years; Series P-60, Child Support and Alimony: 1989; and Child Support for Custodial Fathers and Mothers: 1991.
The extent to which fathers were meeting their obligations to pay child support changed little between 1978 and 1991. In 1991, about half of those women who were awarded child support payments received their full entitlement that year. Less than one-fourth received partial payment, and about one-fourth received no payment.
