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Nearly Half of Parents Get Full Amount of Child Support, Census Bureau Reports
November 9, 2009About half (46.8 percent) of parents owed child support in 2007 received the full amount, while nearly one-third (29.5 percent) received only a portion of the total due and about one-quarter (23.7 percent) received none of the child support they were owed, according to a new national report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Of the $34.1 billion total child support owed, 62.7 percent was reported as received. The report, Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2007, focuses on the child support income that custodial parents reported receiving from noncustodial parents living elsewhere, and other types of support, such as health insurance and noncash assistance. These data were collected in April 2008 as part of a special survey conducted jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Support Enforcement. Full release.