Dads Against Discrimination of WV.
Statistics
79.6% of custodial mothers receive a support award.
29.9% of custodial fathers receive a support award.
46.9% of non-custodial mothers totally default on support.
26.9% of non-custodial fathers totally default on support.
20.0% of non-custodial mothers pay support at some level.
61.0% of non-custodial fathers pay support at some level.
66.2% of single custodial mothers work less than full time.
10.2% of single custodial fathers work less than full time.
7% of single custodial mothers work more than 44 hours weekly.
24.5% of single custodial fathers work more that 44 hours weekly.
46.2% of single custodial mothers receive public assistance.
20.8% of single custodial fathers receive public assistance.
Technical Analysis Paper No. 42
U.S. dept. of Health and Human Services
Office of Income Security Policy
40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the fathers visitation to punish
their ex-spouse.
See "Frequency of Visitation" by Stanford Braver,
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
50% of mothers see no value in the fathers continued contact with his children.
See Surviving the Breakup, by Joan Berlin Kelly
90.2% of fathers with joint custody pay the support due.
79.1% of fathers with visitation privileges pay the support due.
44.5% of fathers with no visitation pay the support due.
37.9% of fathers are denied any visitation.
66% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to the inability to pay.
1988 Census "Child Support and Alimony:1989 Series P-60, No. 173 p.6-7 and
U.S. General Accounting Office Report" GAO/HRD-92-39FS January 1992
Nearly 2 of every 5 kids in America do not live with their fathers.
US News and World Report, February 27, 1995, p.39
11,268,000 total custodial mothers
2,907,000 total custodial fathers
( This shows that nationally 20.5 % of fathers win custody)
Current Populations Reports, US Bureau of the Census,
Series P-20, No. 458, 1991
In July 1997 Family Law Master Page Hamrick stated to a news reporter that in WV.
Fathers won custody 3.7 % of the time, maybe he can tell us why it's so low in WV...?
He denied making this statement at a meeting in May of 1998
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