The One Hundred Billion Dollar Man

The Annual Public Costs of Father Absence

The federal government spends $99.8 billion dollars every year on programs - such as child support enforcement and anti-poverty efforts - to support father-absent homes.

Key Findings

• The Federal Government spent at least $99.8 billion providing assistance to father-absent homes in 2006.
• This is a conservative estimate; it does not include federal benefit programs for communities, indirect costs related to poor outcomes of children from father-absent homes, and long-term costs in reduced tax income from low-earning single-parent families.

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