Child Support 1997
Table 1. Child Support Payments Due and Actually Received, by Gender: 1997
(People 15 years and older with own children under 21 years of age present from an
absent parent as of spring 1998)
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Custodial Custodial Custodial
parents mothers fathers
Characteristics
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Custodial parents due child support payments:
Total (thousands) 7,006 6,331 674
Mean payments (dollars):
Due $4,152 $4,172 $3,965
Received $2,440 $2,503 $1,856
Deficit $1,712 $1,669 $2,109
Aggregate payments (billions of dollars):
Child support due $29.1 $26.4 $2.7
Child support received $17.1 $15.8 $1.3
Aggregate child support deficit $12.0 $10.6 $1.4
Percent of aggregate due actually received 58.8 60.0 46.8
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, April 1998
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Last Revised: October 31, 2011
