Carey Roberts writes about paternity fraud, for example: “Consider the paternity scam. Here’s how it works: Find any dim-witted man to get you pregnant. Then look up the name of some unsuspecting Joe who’s got a steady job – it doesn’t matter that you never met the poor bloke. Put his name on the baby’s birth certificate.
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Now cross your fingers and hope the man is out of town when the sheriff delivers the papers. In California, such default judgments account for 70% of paternity decisions, according to a 2003 study by the Urban Institute. In 2008, 17 million children, or 23 percent of all children in U.S. households, lived with their mother. Child support is an important source of income for these families. In 2008, 31 percent of single mothers received child support; the average amount received was $5,348.