The Threat

By misrepresenting the facts to discredit private child support agencies, special interest groups and some government child support officials are making sure that custodial parents have NO place to turn other than the government to collect their child support.

Instead of working together to solve this growing problem of unpaid child support, a problem affecting millions of American families, some government enforcement agencies and other special interest groups are wasting time fighting turf wars which hurt us all.

For example, if you are a parent in West Virginia, a newly passed law, sponsored and supported by the West Virginia child support agency itself, ensures that you have NO child support options in that state. It even treats deadbeat parents to special protection from tough enforcement efforts. So, if the government enforcement agency in West Virginia fails to help a parent obtain his/her child support, then there is no other place for that parent to get effective help.

This new West Virginia law may as well be called "The Deadbeat Parent Protection Act." Because of this new law, West Virginia parents have NO PLACE to turn, while West Virginia deadbeats will have a safe haven in which to hide from their child support obligations.

Unfortunately, it’s not just West Virginia. Similar legislation also passed last year in Connecticut and may be considered in Virginia in the near future. In these states, government child support enforcement officials worked to deny effective enforcement options to parents in their states. You can help to ensure that these types of "Deadbeat Parent Protection" laws are not passed in Virginia or any other state.

Click here to find out how you can get involved.