Fathers with joint custody pay 90.2% of all child support ordered. Those with visitation rights pay 79.1%.

Those with no access/visitation pay only 44.5%

Source: Census Bureau report. Series P-23, No. 173

 

Almost half of all mothers see no value in the father's continued contact with his children following separation or divorce. And approximately 40% of divorced mothers report interfering with the father's relationship with the children.

Source: Sanford Braver, Arizona State University

 

66% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to inability to pay.

Source: U.S. General Accounting Office Report, GAO/HRD-92-39FS, January 1992

 

Custodial mothers who receive a support award: 79.6%

Custodial fathers who receive a support award: 29.9%

Non-custodial mothers who totally default on support: 46.9%

Non-custodial fathers who totally default on support: 26.9%

(Data obtained by asking custodial parents)

 

Non-custodial mothers who pay support at any level: 20.0%

Non-custodial fathers who pay support at any level: 61.0%

(Data obtained by asking custodial parents)

 

All the following are for custodial parents:

 

Single mothers who work less than full time: 66.2%

Single fathers who work less than full time: 10.2%

 

Single mothers who work more than 44 hours per week: 7.0%

Single fathers who work more than 44 hours per week: 24.5%

 

Single mothers who receive public assistance: 46.2%

Single fathers who receive public assistance: 20.8%

 

Source: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Income Security Policy, Oct., 1991 Authors: Meyer and Garansky

 

"Economically fathers and mothers on average fare almost exactly equal about one year after divorce."

 

Source:  Sanford Braver, Divorced Dads:  Shattering the Myths,

(Tarcher/Putnam:  1998), p. 79