Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Limits of Studying Entrepreneurial Episodes
- 2 Child Support Enforcement: The Current System
- 3 Charity Workers and Local Law Enforcement: The Beginnings of American Child Support Policy
- 4 Social Workers as Challenger Entrepreneurs
- 5 Conservatives as Challenger Entrepreneurs
- 6 Women Leaders as Challenger Entrepreneurs
- 7 Fathers' Rights Groups as Challenger Entrepreneurs
- 8 Innovation and the Vibrancy of American Entrepreneurship
- Index
6 - Women Leaders as Challenger Entrepreneurs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Limits of Studying Entrepreneurial Episodes
- 2 Child Support Enforcement: The Current System
- 3 Charity Workers and Local Law Enforcement: The Beginnings of American Child Support Policy
- 4 Social Workers as Challenger Entrepreneurs
- 5 Conservatives as Challenger Entrepreneurs
- 6 Women Leaders as Challenger Entrepreneurs
- 7 Fathers' Rights Groups as Challenger Entrepreneurs
- 8 Innovation and the Vibrancy of American Entrepreneurship
- Index
Summary
The letters were stacked high in her office that January in 1984. Each was different, yet, in many ways, each was the same. It almost did not matter which ones she chose to bring with her and quote as she faced the Senate's Committee on Finance later that month.
I called my Senator to ask for help. His secretary told me that the best thing to do was to sell my house and go on welfare. She said that the Senators get lots of letters from women who can't get their husbands to pay support, and that all they could tell them to do was to keep going through the legal system or just to go on welfare and let the State take care of it.
– An Indiana MotherBecause of his lack of support, I have had to borrow money and feed my children out of the food banks. I have tried to go through consumer credit, and they stated they don't know how I have existed this long.
– A Washington MotherMy ex-husband is an entertainer in a known group. This group has done extensive travel in the United States, overseas, and has even sung at the White House in Washington for the President. And yet, no one can get him to pay support for his child.
– A North Carolina MotherI have written to our Attorney General, prosecuting attorney, Citizens Complaints, and the judge who has had us in court several times. So far it hasn't done anything. […]
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- The Politics of Child Support in America , pp. 127 - 159Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003