There are many reasons why women might be unwilling to name the absent parent.

Because the absent parent (often the man) doesn't pay child support.

But for that $25 fee, they get access to the state's service to find absent parents, and to enforcement procedures.

In about 150,000 of them, we haven't even found the absent parent yet.

But perhaps more important, the program's teachers and counselors help students address the problems in their lives, like absent parents or drug abuse.

This would have the Government make child support payments itself if it failed to collect the money from absent parents.

The boys had absent parents and played video games.

He has pledged to increase the collection of child support from absent parents.

And after 1994, support will be withheld from the pay of all absent parents.

It was believed that school teachers and administrators took the place of student's absent parents.