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'(The Root) -- Timed for Father's Day weekend, on Friday the White House Domestic Policy Council issued a new report detailing the Obama administration's various initiatives to encourage fatherhood and healthy families.
"One out of every three children in America -- over 24 million in total -- lives in a home without their biological father present," reads the introduction to the report, entitled Promoting Responsible Fatherhood (pdf), which continues to say that many noncustodial dads who try to do the right thing are challenged by unemployment and underemployment. "Data show that low-income men from communities of color are significantly more likely to be nonresident fathers than resident fathers."
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"There are guys who don't have the economic means, for various reasons, to pay, and for a lot of low-income dads it becomes insurmountable debt," Joseph T. Jones, the president and founder of the Center for Urban Families, told The Root. "Then the child-support system expends resources to incarcerate them, compounding the issue because even while the father's in jail, the debt continues to accrue."'
