Governor Stein Proclaims Child Support Awareness Month

Child Support Awareness Month

2025

By The Governor Of The State Of North Carolina

A Proclamation

Whereas, child support is money paid by a parent for the purpose of meeting reasonable needs of the child for health, education and maintenance; children are entitled to financial support from their parents, and North Carolina continues to improve its efforts at child support collections; and

Whereas, North Carolina Child Support Services is dedicated to serving families and children in North Carolina; and

Whereas, in State Fiscal Year 2024 – 2025, nearly $637 million in child support was collected, providing support for more than 305,000 North Carolina children; and

Whereas, children who do not receive adequate financial and emotional support from their parents may experience greater difficulty in becoming happy, healthy, and productive individuals; and

Whereas, many concerned and dedicated judges, district attorneys, clerks of court, sheriffs’ personnel, and child support professionals work to establish and enforce child support orders for North Carolina’s children;

Now, Therefore, I, Josh Stein, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim August 2025 as “Child Support Awareness Month” in North Carolina and commend its observance to all citizens.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this twenty-third day of July in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-fifth and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.