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Wisconsin Child Support Statistics

	Wisconsin support orders are 14.7% of median of all the states.
	90.2% of fathers with joint custody pay the child support due.
	79.1% of fathers with some visitation pay the support due.
	66% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to inability to pay.
	46.9% of non-custodial mothers totally default on support
	50% of mothers see no value in the father's continued contact with his children.
	40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the father's visitation to punish their ex spouse.

These and more can be found below or at http://www.bennett.com/gender/childsupport.htm

http://www.childrensjustice.org/stats.htm

Child Support Facts and Figures

Average Monthly Child Support by State, 1993:

1	California	$1154
2	Delaware	1117
3	Massachusetts	1098
4	North Dakota	1087
5	Wisconsin	1064
6	Illinois	1050
7	New Hampshire	995
8	Connecticut	962
9	Tennessee	905
10	Hawaii	894
11	Michigan	884
12	Vermont	878
13	DC	875
14	Arkansas	858
15	Indiana	853
16	Montana	852
17	Pennsylvania	849
18	New York	831
19	Mississippi	793
20	Georgia	764
21	West Virginia	739
22	Louisiana	728
23	New Mexico	728
24	New Jersey	725
25	Minnesota	725
26	Rhode Island	723
27	North Carolina	718
28	Maryland	711
29	Alaska	703
30	Virginia	700
31	Minnesota	700
32	Kentucky	689
33	Nebraska	689
34	Alabama	685
35	Washington	681
36	Colorado	680
37	Missouri	679
38	Ohio	679
39	Oregon	670
40	South Carolina	664
41	Florida	651
42	Wyoming	630
43	Iowa	624
44	Idaho	604
45	Kansas	593
46	Nevada	589
47	Utah	589
48	Texas	579
49	Oklahoma	573
50	Arizona	546
51	South Dakota	502

Median - $723

California is 160% of median.

Source: National Center for State Courts, Calculations by Law Offices of Craig Candelore, San Diego, CA. 1993.

Support, Custody, and Work

	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 than 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 & Human Services - Office of Income Security Policy, Oct. 1991 - Meyer and Garansky)

Support And Custody

	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
	(1988 Census "Child Support and Alimony: 1989 Series P-60, No. 173 p. 6-7)
	66% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to inability to pay (U.S. General Accounting Office Report GAO/HRD-92-39FS January 1992)
	50% of mothers see no value in the father's continued contact with his children. (Surviving the Breakup by Joan Berlin Kelly)
	40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the father's visitation .... to punish their ex spouse. (Frequency of Visitation ....Stanford Braver, Ph.D. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry)
	63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)
	90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes
	85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Center for Disease Control)
	80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26, 1978)
	71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (National Principals Association Report on the state of High Schools)
	75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Rainbows for all God's Children)
	70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)
	85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Fulton County Georgia jail populations & Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)

Children in Fatherless Homes:

	5 times more likely to commit suicide
	32 times more likely to run away
	20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
	14 times more likely to commit rape
	9 times more likely to drop out of school
	10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances
	9 times more likely to end up in a state operated institution
	20 times more likely to end up in prison

22% of American children are in fatherless homes

	11,268,000 total custodial mothers
	2,907,000 total custodial fathers

(Current Population Reports, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Series P-20, No. 458, 1991)

Child Support Totals

	$14,800,000,000 total chid support owed
	$11,100,000,000 total child support payed

(Current Population Reports, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Series P-123, No. 173, 1988)

Gender Bias in the Santa Clara and San Mateo County Court

Where BOTH mother and father asked for FATHER custody the court awarded custody to the mother 12.3% of the time (Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody - Harvard Press, 1992 - Eleanor MacCoby (Stanford Psychology) and Robert Mnookin (Stanford Law) from a survey of nearly 1,000 divorcing couples in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties)

Percentage of children in single parent families, by year:

1950	7.1
1955	11.1
1960	----
1965	9.8
1970	11.3
1975	16.1
1980	18.9
1985	21.0
1988	21.6
1989	21.9
1990	22.2
1991	22.9
1992	24.0

(U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-20, Household and Family Characteristics, various years; and Marital Status and Living Arrangements: March 1988-1990, Nos 433, 445, and 450)