From Mexico to Argentina, women fight a common battle: for parents to pay child support. The evasion of their children's obligations crosses the entire region.
From clotheslines in Mexico exposing late-paying parents to prison sentences in Brazil, the women leading this fight have won laws and protocols. This is the panorama of a struggle that ranges from social pressure and public ridicule, to the pursuit of money in banks and prison. In Mexico, three out of four children of separated parents do not receive child support, according to the National Institute of Statistics (Inegi)