There is a difference between 70% bias and 99% bias. As bias as the American courts are, they base child support on the father’s abilities to pay and do not deliberately drive him to homelessness and then chase after him as a ‘deadbeat dad’.
True. . .but in the US (Texas specifically that I know of), when a father dies and obviously can’t make child support payments, he officially becomes a “deadbeat dad.”
He dies, can’t make payments and the county automatically records him as no longer making payments-—therefore he is a deadbeat dad.
He will remain on the deadbeat list, inflating the numbers, until someone petitions the court to remove him from the child support list.
All “deadbeat dad” stats are suspect in my mind.