News Articles - Child Support

Republicans launch bill that would require fathers to pay child support to unborn babies: Senator says legislation would make it possible for mother to get back pay from as early as conception

By Daily Mail, 07/18/2022 “…Under the bill, mothers would be able to request child support from the moment of conception and would even be able to collect the payments retroactively if paternity was not established until birth…” Read the entire article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11025857/Republicans-launch-bill-require-fathers-pay-child-support-unborn-babies.html

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Learning from the United States’ Painful History of Child Support

By American Progress, 06/17/2022 “… In order to create an approach to child support that truly increases children’s economic stability, the federal and state governments must move beyond this backlash…policymakers must consider the history of the child support program and how best to ensure that it helps, not harms, families…” Read the entire article: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/learning-from-the-united-states-painful-history-of-child-support/

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