What About Me? The 17 Million Children in Child Support PDF Download

Author: Veronica Ragland
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Book Description
What About Me? The 17 Million Children in Child Support encourages child support practitioners and parents to collaborate for the sake of their child. With the rise in single parenting, the child support agency has the authority, programs, and services that can support co-parents' efforts to collaborate to improve child outcomes. With one in four U.S. children receiving child support services, there are 17 million reasons to collaborate. What About Me? provides tips to child support workers and encourages parents to take responsibility for the gaps in their processes and relationships. Shortly after I became a statewide child support director, my office received a call from a local police officer requesting a file for an active child support case. It contained evidence of a fierce child support and custody battle between the co-parents. The father had just shot and killed the mother of their child before turning the gun on himself in the parking lot of their child's day care. Instantly, the child became an orphan as she played safely inside. This book is intended to help parents and practitioners avoid the stress of participating in the child support system-not avoid their responsibility to their child.