Instead of increasing support for custodial parents, efforts to enforce child support have resulted in chaos and dysfunction. The system alienates fathers from their children, reduces labor force participation, and increases tension between police and the communities they serve.

Clifford F. Thies is the Eldon R. Lindsay Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah University.
John Winn is professor of business law at Shenandoah University.
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Other Independent Review articles by Clifford F. Thies
Spring 2023 The Myth of American Inequality
Summer 2016 Reputation Overrides Record: How Warren G. Harding Mistakenly Became the “Worst” President of the United States
Fall 2014 Repudiation in Antebellum Mississippi
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