How serious is the non=child support problem??
- any numbers? - and what states are worst??
If you received Temporary Cash Assistance, any child support payments collected will be kept by the State as reimbursement so says Maryland.
Back in 1993 thousands in a town next to the former Subic Bay Naval Station, instead of pressing individual paternity or child-support suits; they filed a $68 million lawsuit arguing that the United States has a legal responsibility to educate and provide medical care for an estimated 8,600 Amerasians in Olongapo. --Abandoned Filipinos Sue U.S. Over Child Support. Argument made American taxpayers are not responsible for foreigners conceived by consenting adults. The United States was chosen as the defendant, as had more money than the fathers do. Mercedes Gervacio, who has four Amerasian children, teaches other mothers how to sell candy on the street to earn $3 or $4 a day. She said one boyfriend talked of marriage, "but it was just a promise."
But, am getting a little off track now.