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Single-parent households who have difficulty
living often do not receive child support. For the first time, the government announced a master plan, which included criminal penalties if the other party did not knowingly pay child support.

More details will be provided by a credit reporter.

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Mr. A, who divorced five years ago and is raising his two daughters alone, lives in a welfare facility.

Caring for my first elementary school child with a disability and my second child, who is still in kindergarten, it is not easy to find work, and I have not received a single penny of the child support I deserve.

[Ms. A/Single-parent householder: Why should I give it to you even though it's my own child? Give me child support, and I said, 'I don't like that,' because I say it as if it's too obvious....]

Currently, half of the single-parent households in Korea raising adolescent children are low-income households.

Only 5% of single-parent households received child support.

For the first time, the government has prepared and announced a basic plan for stabilizing the lives of single-parent households.

If you knowingly fail to pay child support, you can suspend your driver's license, ban from leaving the country, or other criminal penalties even without a court order.

[Kim Hyun-sook/Minister of Gender Equality and Family: It takes up to two years or more from the implementation order to the confinement order.... (By the way) it is expected that the time can be shortened by about one year by amending the law....]

We plan to change the law so that income and property can be checked without the consent of the parties.

As early as the second half of this year, single-parent households will be included in the priority supply of permanent rental housing, and housing stabilization measures will be prepared to extend the period of admission to family welfare facilities from the current three years to a maximum of five years.

Children of low-income single-parent families will be guaranteed priority admission to public kindergartens, and if they attend private kindergartens, they will receive up to 28,2 won per month.

(Video Interview: Park Young-il and Park Jin-ho, Video Editor: Shin Se-eun, Graphics: Kang Kyung-rim)