Advocates for Child Support Reform

Social Advocacy For Child Support Enforcement Reform in the USA.

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A Commitment to Children’s Financial Well-Being

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Advocacy With Impact

Leading efforts to present policy change nationwide.

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Data-Driven Solutions

Using research to create effective support programs.

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Trusted National Voice

Representing families with integrity and expertise.

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Putting Children at the Center of Child Support

Pay Kids First Foundation is committed to addressing the urgent crisis of child support default and enforcement results in the United States.
Exposing the data gained through 2017-2018 FOIA research coupled with public information, to support our position that reform of the existing child support enforcement service structure is necessary NOW, and demands further research to effect change for children and their custodial parents struggling to collect support. Specifically our research supports the need to analyze the causes of high levels of single case loads and to fix the existing federal and state system, which we suggest we can do in partnership if allowed.

Your Involvement Matters

As a trusted national nonprofit child support enforcement organization, we will spotlight and address systemic enforcement gaps with new ideas for adoption updates to:

  • Mitigate the financial abuse now imbedded in the system.
  • Mitigate the ease of financial abandonment imbedded in the system.
  • Mitigate children’s developmental damage due to the emotional abandonment and psychological abuse of a non paying irresponsible parent.
  • Advocate for responsible parental role models.

Your involvement can be the catalyst for vital change. Stand with them and make a difference today. Please donate!

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Who We Serve

We serve the children of America’s financially divided households and their families who are due or were due child support in dependent years and subjected to default.

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In 2023 approximately 25.1% of US children totaling 72.8 million under the age or 18 were living in a single parent household. This is the highest rate in the world and applies to dependent children and their family’s due current child support.

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Numerically, an estimate of 72.8 million children at 25.1% is 18,272,800 children and their custodial families may be due child support and enter the system.

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Custodial families are owed a collective debt estimated to be over $115 billion dollars in 2023 and has remained over $100 billion since 2006 and now shows at $115 billion owed even with ongoing enforcement activities.