Abstract
Title IV-D of the Social Security Act' mandates that states provide specific child support enforcement services in order to receive federal funding under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.2 Most states, however, have not carried out the mandate to locate absent fathers and collect child support payments from them. Out of approximately 9.4 million mothers living without their children's fathers in the spring of 1988, only fifty-one percent of these women had child support awards and only twenty-six percent had received their full child support the previous year.3 This Comment argues for allowing mothers of children with absent fathers to bring suit under 42 USC ? 19834 to compel states to provide child support enforcement services under Title IV-D.5 A
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