HOW S.C. CAN CUT CRIME , TAXES , AND SAVE BILLIONS

I have been talking about the same issue with every one of my post . It is the only issue that I know of that touches such a wide range of satistics . One common facter in all the issues that I have shown you . The one thing that can be corrected that can change the numbers on everything from crime to taxes . The sad part about it is that it's no secret , It's common knowledge . It is treated as a back page crime, when in reality it is controlling the headlines . .
Another sad fact is when I tell you what this crime is most of you will turn away and will show no more interest in this blog, without giving me a chance to prove what I say . This is how this issue is generally handeled , but I will try as I have been trying for more than four year's now . I wish to make my feeling's clear , the ones of you that do just blow this off without looking at the facts should take a good look in the mirrior and see the biggest reason this problem exsist .
Sadlly the one's that work the hardest to help the poor kid's in this situation , and stand by the kid's through thick and thin catch the most slack over this issue . In case you haven't figuerd out what I am talking about yet, it is single parent's and the lack of support they get, for the one's of you who are still there, here are the fact's .

Single-Parent Homes Tied to Mental Ills
by Smrity Sharma - March 17, 2007
University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine has found that the children mostly boys who are being raised by single parent are more likely to be abused than the children raised in normal households.

All but three of 23 recent studies found some family structure effect on
crime or delinquency. Seven of the eight studies that used nationally
representative data, for example, found that children in single-parent or
other non-intact family structures were at greater risk of committing criminal or
delinquent acts. For example: A study using Add-Health data found that adolescents in single-parent families
were almost two times more likely to have pulled a knife or a gun on someone in
the past year. (Todd Michael Franke 2000) http://www.divorcereform.org/crime.html

AND WHAT MAKES IT WORSE . IN SOUTH CAROLINA 99.5 SINGLE PARENTS ARE WOMEN AND THEY ALREADY HAVE TO FIGHT HARD BECAUSE THEY START OUT BEHIND

South Carolina 47th in earnings gap between men and women in US
The April 2007 American Association of University Women (AAUW) research report, Behind the Gender Gap, highlights the magnitude of http://www.allianceforwomen.net/news/?id=21

THE HARDEST PART I FIND TO SWALLOW IS HOW SOCIATY LOOKS DOWN ON SINGLE PARENTS THAT ARE WOMEN . HECK THEY ARE THE STRONG ONES THAT STAY WITH THEIR KIDS MEN RUN AS A HOLE , AND THATS A BIG PART OF WHATS GOING ON IN SOUTH CAROLINA

The Republican nominee in South Carolina's hard-fought U.S. Senate race apologized yesterday for saying gays and unmarried mothers should not teach in public schools, but he stopped short of retracting the statements. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40620-2004Oct17.html THIS WOULD BE JIM DEMINT

ON TOP OF ALL THIS THEY HAVE THIS

As far as Congress is concerned, South Carolina is a deadbeat state.

Since 2001, the state has been fined more than $55 million for not complying with a federal law by setting up a computer system to track parents who don't make their child support payments.

And thanks to ongoing legal problems with a company that wants to build the system, things may not change before more fines come due.

South Carolina Child (Non) Support
In fiscal 2006, the Department of Social Services collected $253,901,823 in child support.

As of April 30, DSS has 152,162 active child support cases state­wide. Of those, 125,102 parents are collectively $1,178,157,745 behind in payments.

LOWCOUNTRY BREAKDOWN:

In Berkeley County, DSS is handling 4,863 active support orders. Of those, 4,351 are in arrears. Those people owe $48,384,993. THIS IS WHERE I LIVE

In Charleston County, DSS has 14,428 active support orders. Of those, 12,053 owe an outstand­ing $119,664,284.

In Dorchester County, DSS has 2,880 active cases. Of those, 2,351 owe $22,894,520.

http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/06/s_c_fine_m_counting/

JUST TO ADD TO THIS

Table K - The Percentage of Cases Where Health Insurance is Provided As Ordered, FY 2000-2004

SOUTH CAROLINA 8.29 8.35 24.69 24.00 23.19

WHERE DO YOU THINK THE 77 % THAT THEY DON'T ENFORCE GO

South Carolina Medicaid programs provide basic health care services for approximately one million individuals annually who are either very poor ,elderly , or disabled .
At a cost of about $ 4.5 billion .
http://www.dhhs.state.sc.us/Internet/pdf/2004SelfAssessmentofBestManagementPractices.pdf
THIS IS ABOUT 1/4 OF THE STATE BUDGET

AS LONG AS THIS KEEPS UP SO WILL THIS

Children in single-parent families comprise 27% of all American children, yet they account for 62% of all poor children.

JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION
In 2002, 12 children under age 18 were killed in firearm homicides in South Carolina, a 33.3% increase from 9 in 2001. 38
In 2004, 2,866 children younger than 18 were arrested in South Carolina, a 111.8% increase from 1,353 arrests in 2003. Of the arrests in 2004, 215 were for a violent crime and 67 were for possession of a weapon.

this is the 2005 2006 by county with state comparison juvenile cases FOR SOUTH CAROLINA about the only number you will find here that is higher then the number of juvenils that come from single parent homes is the number of offenses the # is 55% come from single family homes http://www.state.sc.us/djj/pdfs/2005-2006-County-Datasheets.pdf

this is the south Carolina department of corrections The numbers : population 22,953
marital status
single male 13,112 67% female 670 43%
married 6,347 30 631 40%

with children male 13.118 61 % female 1217 70%
http://www.doc.sc.gov/research/InmatePopulationStats/ASOFFY06InstitutionalCountProfile.pdf

Number of recipients
Number of recipients (households w/ children)7 118,000 households (FY 2005)
Number of recipients (children)7 245,000 children (FY 2005)

http://www.nccp.org/profiles/SC_profile_29.html

South Carolina: Child Support Enforcement
Participants
Number of cases
Cases - Currently on TANF11 39,198 cases (FY 2003)
Cases - Formerly on TANF11 110,456 cases (FY 2003)
Cases - Never on TANF11 69,201 cases (FY 2003)
Cases - Total11 218,855 cases (FY 2003)

http://www.nccp.org/profiles/SC_profile_26.html

TEENAGE PREGNANCY
"Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency." Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Atlantic Monthly (April 1993).
Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have children during their teenage years than are daughters from intact families. The Good Family Man, David Blankenhorn.
71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
EDUCATION WEEK FINDS 53.8 PERCENT OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS EARN DIPLOMAS
S.C. ranks last in graduation rate report
JIM DAVENPORT
Associated Press

COLUMBIA --
South Carolina has the nation's worst graduation rate, according to a report from a leading national education publication.

71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.)
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)
90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)

THERE IS NO SECRET WHAT THE ANSWER IS , SOUTH CAROLINA FIGURED IT OUT IN 95
Date: April 10, 1995
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michael Kharfen, ACF (202) 401-9215

HHS Announces Child Support
Enforcement Reinvention Underway
The urgency of our task has been stressed by many," said Mary Jo Bane, assistant secretary for children and families. "This initiative to set goals and measure results will strengthen our ability to ensure needed support for millions of children and is in keeping with the president's mission to make government work better for the American people."
As a two-year pilot project under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA),

THIS WAS SOUTH CAROLINAS PLAN
South Carolina--Teen Pregnancy Prevention/Parental Responsibility South Carolina proposes to initiate a teen-age pregnancy prevention program that will focus on parental responsibilities for children's financial support. Contact: Larry J. McKeown, 803-737-5870

THE WHITE HOUSE

WORKING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE

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Enhance Child Support Enforcement

Overview

Child support enforcement is an important component of the Federal and state effort to promote family self-sufficiency. For the low-income families who receive it, child support makes up a significant portion of the family budget (26 percent). Moreover, families that receive child support are less likely to return to TANF. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/welfare-book-08.html

WHAT MAKES THIS HARDER TO UNDERSTAND FOR ME IS THIS

South Carolina levies a 5% sales tax on transactions, which is equal to the National Median. On July 1, 2007 however, the rate will increase to 6%, putting it above the national median rate. State and local governments combined collect $677 per capita in general sales taxes, which ranks 37th highest nationally.

South Carolina is one of the 37 states that collect property taxes at both the state and local levels. As in most states, local governments collect far more. South Carolina's localities collected $3,692,822,000 in property taxes in fiscal year 2004, which is the latest year the Census Bureau published state-by-state property tax collections. At the state level, South Carolina collected $11,597,000 in property taxes during FY 2004, making its combined state/local property taxes $3,704,419,000. That brings its per capita collection to $882, which ranks 33rd highest nationally.

South Carolina's personal income tax system features six income brackets with a top rate of 7% kicking in at a relatively low income level of $12,850. Among states levying personal income taxes, South Carolina's top rate of 7.0% is 12th highest nationally. In 2004, state individual income tax collections were $581 per person, which ranked 34th highest nationally.

HERE IS A GOOD FACT

Tough child support laws deter single men from becoming dads
Study finds link between enforcement and out-of-wedlock births
Researchers studying the factors behind out-of-wedlock births have found a significant variable that often is overlooked: child support.
States that are strict in enforcing child support have up to 20 percent fewer unmarried births than states that are lax about getting unmarried dads to pay, the researchers found.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/uow-tcs061005.php

THEIR HAS BEEN ONLY ONE BIRTH I KNOW OF THAT ONLY TOOK ONE PARENT THAT IS WHEN JESUS WAS BORN

IF WE DON'T CHANGE THESE NUMBERS, THEN THESE NUMBERS WILL INCREASE EVEN MORE

SOUTH CAROLINA TOP 20 http://forums.myrtlebeachonline.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=kr-generalforum&msg=6015.1&ctx=0

According to the South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs' 2004 Statistical Profile, 31 percent of all children in South Carolina under the age of 18 live in single-parent families; 52 percent of African-American children and 19 percent of white children. Of all females in the state who give birth, 40.1 percent are single; 68.9 percent of African Americans and 11.1 percent of Caucasian mothers.

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I AM NOT ASKING FOR MONEY IN ANY WAY, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR TIME. EMAIL THESE GUYS TELL THEM TO UPHOLD THE CHILD SUPPORT LAWS

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford
http://www.scgovernor.com/Contact.asp?sitecontentid=33

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham
http://lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contactform

1950 Federal Enforcement of Child Support Title 18, United States Code, Section 228, the Child Support Recovery Act of 1992 (CSRA), makes the willful failure to pay a past due support obligation with respect to a child residing in another State a Federal offense.

South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint
http://demint.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home