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    • Custodial Parents Living in Poverty

    Metadata Updated: June 21, 2025

    Office of Child Support Enforecment (OCSE) Story Behind the Numbers - Child Support Fact Sheet #3. This fact sheet focuses on data reported in a recent U.S. Census Bureau report, Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2011. The data reported are estimated based on a biennial survey of custodial parents, the Child Support Supplement to the Current Population Survey, March/April 2012, co-sponsored by the Office of Child Support Enforcement. The proportion of custodial parents living below poverty line continues to increase in 2011. The report found that 4.2 million custodial parents lived in poverty in 2011, representing 29 percent of all custodial parents, about twice the poverty rate for the total population. These statistics reinforce the essential role that child support services can play in helping low-income families, especially during an economic downturn.

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date June 21, 2025

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    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date June 21, 2025
    Publisher Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health & Human Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier 65f41ddb-094b-4181-a85a-ce55a945312e
    Data First Published 2014-02-10
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-25
    Category State
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 2be35a03-dd89-4996-afa3-e9288bc8bb33
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/custodial-parents-living-poverty
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:103
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 756848818bf00bcae469f5a2512da2054d140d8945871d855f1877901b7fb976
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2011-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2011-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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