When the economy is bad, providing for a family can be extremely difficult for a single-parent family. It becomes more difficult when a non-custodial parent stops making the court-ordered child support payments on which the family depends. You might think that a government-funded program that purports to provide the same variety of services to both welfare and non-welfare recipients would be helpful in maintaining support for the nonresident parent. However, this is not true in all child support cases. Single-family families, who receive no child support, live in poverty because child support specialists are overwhelmed with welfare cases they consider priority. In the case of the child support specialist, it's all about return on investment for the government. Due to the increasing rate of welfare cases, it is the job of the understaffed child support specialist to focus primarily on raising money for the federal government, which in many cases leaves recipients who do not receive welfare helpless . Single-family families are suffering in a world of poverty due to the overload of child support specialists who focus primarily on their welfare cases due to increasing child support policies, high volume of divorce, poor economic conditions and teenage pregnancies. With policies changing frequently, it can be difficult for child support specialists to stay informed about the laws and procedures required to perform their job duties. Furthermore, with so many responsibilities, it is difficult for specialists to complete their tasks in the limited time allotted by chance. With so many changes in federal and state policies, I wonder if child support specialists are being kept informed... halfway through the document... Effective programs to reduce the number of child support enforcement cases." Newspaper of Policy Studies 35.3 (2007): 546-547. Full Text of Social Sciences. 25 February 2012. Cornanor, William. Law and Economics of Child Support Payments ABC-CLIO. December 9, 2011. “Divorce Rate.” Np. Web. April 5, 2012. Laakso, Janice H. “Child Support Policy: Some Critical Issues and Implications for Labor Social Work. Social Work 45.4 (2000): 367-370. ProQuest Research Library Preparation. Network. February 25, 2012. Lamb, Michael. Role of the Father in Child Development. 4th ed. Np: John Wiley & Sons, Inc ., 2004. ABC-CLIO eBook Collection. December 2, 2011. United States. Child support enforcement. Child Support Enforcement Manual. Washing DC: np, 2008. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Network. April 5. 2012.