Sentences with phrase «custodial mothers receive»

According to the US Census Bureau, only 37 percent of custodial mothers receive the full child support payments they are due.

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The mother benefits by having someone share parental responsibility, being able to have a little break during visitation by the father and receiving child support (assuming that the father is not the custodial parent).

In addition boys, compared with girls, may be exposed to more conflict, receive less support from parents and others (because they are believed to be tougher), and be picked on more by custodial mothers (because sons may resemble their fathers).

While many men now contend that maternal custody of the children unfairly penalizes them (particularly former wives who use denied visitation as a way of punishing former husbands), mothers who are custodial parents appear to suffer more financially as a result, even when they are receiving child support.

Very often the custodial parent (usually the mother) will seek to modify the child support she receives on ground of a change in economic circumstances occasioned by increases in the cost of living.