Warren Farrell: "There are deadbeat wives -both sexes have their deadbeats- but how rare it is for a full-time father to take a deadbeat mother to court. Thus it appears that any given deadbeat mom is less likely to be found--- to become a statistical "deadbeat mom." Despite this, the statistics still reveal that moms are less likely to pay, and more likely to pay less. When children were living with their dad and the court ordered the mother to pay a father subsidy (usually because her income exceeded the father's), the mothers paid an average of 33 percent owed; fathers paid an average of 62 percent owed. It took a Freedom Of Information Act request to get this data from the D.C. Office of Paternity and Child Support Enforcement.(14) The same request revealed that 13 percent of fathers overpaid mother subsidies; not a single mother overpaid father subsidies.(15) In brief, when dads have the children, mothers are far less likely to be ordered by the court to pay father subsidy, are ordered to pay less, are less likely to pay it, and never overpay." References: (14.) John Siegmund, "Preliminary Analysis of the Database of the D.C. Office of Paternity and Child Support Enforcement," compiled for National Council of Children's Rights, November 9, 1990. The computer printout is dated August 3, 1990, and contains 6,103 names, addresses, amounts owed, and amounts paid, from which a random sampling of 610 names was taken. (15.) Ibid. In that 10% sample, there were 81 records of overpayment totalling $37, 106.27, showing that 13% of men had overpaid. [from 'Father and Child Reunion' p. 175]
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