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for Safe and Strong Families Had Money If I Had Money explores how courtordered child support can create barriers to building economic security for Black parents children and their familiesespecially when the courtordered debt is owed to the government. To further investigate the economic security of Black children teenagers and their fathers in Mississippi CFFPP and the Coalition for a Prosperous Mississippi conducted focus groups and listening sessions with Black men women and high school students. Several policy recommendations are suggested all focused on making sure children have the support they needas well as their parents and families. and nevermarried families State child support enforcement agencies facilitate the legal establishment of paternity for children born outside of marriage and enforce the payment of child support by noncustodial parents.