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are not only less likely to be awarded child-support pay-
ments, but they are also much more likely to be poor (43).
In 1982, poor female single parents were awarded child-
support payments in only forty percent of the cases; of
these, only sixty percent received some payment, with the
average amount received by poor female single parents being
approximately $120 per month (34). The female single parents
who are most needy are the ones least likely to have been
awarded support payments; if they were awarded payments,
they received a very small amount on the average. When
inflation is taken into account, the purchasing power of
child-support payments declined by approximately sixteen
percent (in real terms) between 1978 and 1981 (45).
In 1984, Congress amended the Social Security Act to
strengthen child-support enforcement in the states. New
guidelines mandated enforcement coverage for all children
(not just AFDC recipients), and provided federal incentive
payments to the states for all cases. The states were
required to (1) expedite procedures for support orders in
the judicial system, (2) establish child-support guide-
lines for judges and other officials by October 1, 1987,
and (3) adopt automatic wage withholding after one month
of nonpayment (found to be the most effective means of
collection) (15).
These changes in policy were meant to remedy three
persistent failures of the support system: (1) high failure
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Maldonado, Alfred C. Sources of Support and Parental Performances a Descriptive Study of Mexican-American Female Single Parents, dissertation, August 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331344/m1/15/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .