In an entry at his Your Black World blog, Dr. Boyce Watkins examines the perilous impact on families when fathers fail to pay child support. Watkins says that the child-support system is in serious ...

When policymakers talk about child support, they often focus on poverty or delinquency. For decades that focus made sense. The modern child-support enforcement system was built to protect low-income ...

A reshuffling of child support collection was supposed to help the people who need the money. Three weeks into the system, those people say getting their checks is still a major hassle. Last week, the ...