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The Divorce Divide: How The US Legal System Screws Poor Parents

Qz.com 5/11/2015

“… For the most part, these are not “deadbeat dads”; they’re dead broke dads. Seventy percent of unpaid child support debt is owed by parents with no or low reported earnings, according to the Office of Child Support Enforcement. Their ex-wives often are poor, too. For these families, our punitive child support policies function like a de facto debtor’s prison for fathers. …”

Read the entire article: http://qz.com/397579/the-divorce-divide-how-the-us-legal-system-screws-poor-parents/