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In modem American politics, "child support" is almost always mentioned in the same sentence as "welfare reform." When the Clinton Administration dramatically overhauled the nation's welfare system during the summer of 1996,1 politicians from both parties praised the new law's child support provisions. President Clinton hailed the possibility that child support enforcement might shrink welfare rolls. "If every parent paid the child support they should," he said at the news conference following the signing of the bill, "we could move 800,000 women and children off welfare immediately." 2 At the parallel Republican press conference, Representative Jennifer Dunn pointed out that nonpayment of child support was a major cause of welfare dependency. Reminding her audience that over thirty billion dollars in court-ordered child support payments goes uncollected, she asked: "What happens when that money is not paid? The children and the mother go on welfare. And so the taxpayer becomes in effect the parent of those children." 3 The villain in the child support reform story is the "deadbeat dad" who does not pay child support. In a speech in Denver one week before he signed the welfare bill, President Clinton assured his audience that nonpayment of child support was a serious crime, comparing it to robbing a

The American Invention of Child Support: Dependency and Punishment in Early American Child Support Law