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21 J. Contemp. L. 195 (1995)
Child Support Awards in Utah: Have Guidelines Made a Difference

handle is hein.journals/jcontemlaw21 and id is 199 raw text is: Child Support Awards in Utah: Have Guidelines Made a Difference?* Barbara R. Rowe, Ph.D. Kay W. Hansen' I. INTRODUCTION In Utah and nationally, child support issues have emerged as a central public policy concern in recent years. Significant increases in divorce, desertion, and out-of-wedlock births have left growing numbers of children living in single-parent households.' If recent trends continue, six out of every ten children born today will spend some time living in single-parent families, the majority of which are headed by women.2 These families make up a disproportionately large share of families living at or below the poverty level.3 In 1991, 59% of all related children under the age of eighteen living in a female-headed household were below the poverty line-five times the poverty rate of children from all Partial funding for this research was supplied by a grant from the Utah Bar Foundation IOLTA program and the College of Family Life, Utah State University. '' Barbara R. Rowe is Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. from Oregon State University in Family Economics and Management. Her current research interests include the interaction between work and family especially in minority and women-owned family businesses, the economics of divorce, evaluation of child support guideline legislation, and the economic well-being of women and children. Her published work has appeared in numerous texts and journals, including the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Willamette Law Review, Journal of Contemporary Law, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, Conciliation Courts Review, and The Encyclopedia ofMarriage and Family. She is co-editor of the book Home-Based Employment and Family Life, published by Auburn House. Kay W. Hansen, M.S. Consumer Education, College of Family Life (1991). Presently an outreach specialist, sensory impaired home intervention, 809 North 800 East, UMC 1900, SKI-HI Institute, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 84322-1900. Special acknowledgement to the College of Family Life, Utah State University, for the supporting research which has the potential to help our children. ' Bianchi & McArthur, Current Population Reports, Series P-70 No. 23, Family Disruption and Economic Hardship: The Short-Run Picture for Children (1991); Billings, From Guesswork to Guidelines-The Adoption of Uniform Child Support Guidelines in Utah, 1989 UTAH LAW REVIEW 859 (1989); Elrod, Kansas Child Support Guidelines: An Elusive Search for Fairness in Support Orders, 27 WASHBURN L.J. 104 (1987). 2 BELLER & GRAHAM, SMALL CHANGE: THE ECONOMICS OF CHILD SUPPORT (1993). Id. at 2; U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60 No. 173, CHILD SUPPORT AND ALIMONY (1990). 195

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