If it weren't for this program, I’d probably still be sitting in jail wondering how I was going to get out.

Ricky Smith, who had been jailed for delinquent child support payments but is now paying and seeing his children regularly after participating in one of Georgia's Parental Accountability Courts, which address problems parents have -- such as unemployment, drug use and lack of transportation -- that keep them from making regular support payments.

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Ricky Smith, who had been jailed for delinquent child support payments but is now paying and seeing his children regularly after participating in one of Georgia's Parental Accountability Courts, which address problems parents have -- such as unemployment, drug use and lack of transportation -- that keep them from making regular support payments.

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Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.
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