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Deadbeat parent is a pejorative term〔http://flowtv.org/2010/09/de-racializing-deadbeat-dads/〕 referring to parents of any gender who do not fulfill their parental responsibilities, especially when they evade court-ordered child support obligations. The gender-specific deadbeat dad and deadbeat mom are commonly used to refer to men and women who have fathered or mothered a child and intentionally fail to pay child support ordered by a family law court or statutory agency such as the Child Support Agency. ==Child support arrears== According to the United States Census Bureau, 42% of custodial mothers (as "obligees") received all child support that they were owed and 70.5% received some in 2009. Additionally, 34.1% of custodial fathers (as "obligees") received all child support that they were owed and 72.9% received some.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-240.pdf )〕 Child support assessments are made based on a variety of formulae, and vary from state to state in the United States. According to one study 38% of Illinois "obligor" parents not paying child-support said they lacked the money to pay. 23% used non-payment to protest a lack of visitation rights. 69% complained of no accountability over the spending of their child support money, while 13% said they did not want their child or children and 12% denied parentage. (See paternity fraud.) According to a California study, 76% of the $14.4 billion in child support arrears in California has been attributed to "obligors" who lack the ability to pay (see Figure 1, p. 5-4). In California, the "deadbeat" parents had a median annual income of $6349, arrears of $9447, ongoing support of $300 per month. One reason given for this was that 71% of the orders were set by default—meaning that person who supposedly owes support was not personally served with a notice to appear before the court or administrative agency. A notice is sent to the last known address, which may have changed. Alternative terms for deadbeat parents who lack the ability to pay are "deadbroke"〔 〕〔Sperling, Gene "The Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity", p.158 (Simon and Schuster, 2005), ISBN 0-7432-9241-3, ISBN 978-0-7432-9241-2〕 and "turnip" (as in "You can't get blood out of a turnip").〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deadbeat parent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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