Are children receiving child support likely to live in poverty Essay (Essay Sample)

Children Support and Living in Poverty: Methods
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Children Support and Living in Poverty: Methods
Children from low income or poor households rarely get child support. However, when they get it, it is often a quarter of their family's income. On average, support to these children amount to 16% of their families' income. In the U.S., the child welfare system recorded a total of 6 million children facing neglect or child abuse in the year 2010 in the country (Cancian et al., 2013). Policymakers and researchers have always perceived children from low-income backgrounds as being prone to maltreatment as compared to those from average or high-income households. Support groups and efforts have only been focused on alleviating poverty among custodial families while neglecting the lack of fathers, which tends to impact socioeconomic status. This research uses a hypothesis to ascertain whether children receiving child support are likely to live in poverty.