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Millennials having children unmarried expands SupportPay's market beyond divorce.

Sherry Atwood · 714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For · Jul 8, 2017 · at 2:48

Sherry Atwood, founder and CEO of SupportPay, explains why her child support management platform does not rely strictly on divorce rates for customer growth.

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“Because these millennials these days actually aren't getting married anymore. They're just having babies. So it's actually not the divorce.”

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The claim, plainly

Millennials are frequently having children without getting married, making SupportPay's market opportunity broader than just divorced couples.

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Assessment

Official demographic analyses from the Pew Research Center, the CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NVSS), and the U.S. Census Bureau confirm both components of the claim: millennial marriage rates declined significantly relative to previous generations at comparable ages, while a substantial and rising proportion of births occurred outside of marriage.

Pew Research Center analysis documented that 51% of births to Millennial mothers aged 18–29 in 2008 were to unwed mothers, compared to 39% for Generation X mothers at the same age in 1997.
CDC NVSS natality data confirmed that approximately 40% of all annual births in the United States between 2016 and 2018 occurred to unmarried mothers.
Pew Research Center and U.S. Census Bureau data show that only 22% of Millennials aged 18–29 were married in 2010, compared to 30% of Gen Xers and over 40% of Baby Boomers at the same life stage, alongside record-high median ages at first marriage.

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CDC NVSS unmarried births millennials 2016 2017 2018 US Census Bureau millennial marriage rates unmarried births Pew Research Center millennial births unmarried parents marriage rates Pew Research millennials unmarried parents marriage decline 2017 2018

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Disclosure

Atwood moved SupportPay out of Silicon Valley to sustain operations.

“After I raised my first three million in capital, I realized I could not sustain a business in Silicon Valley.”

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Tech investors shifted focus from active users to revenue in early 2016.

“Right in June, March of last year, the whole world when it came to investment changed and it went from active users or a number of customers to amount of revenue.”

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Insight

SupportPay's real value is long-term legal proof, not daily expense tracking.

“The value to them is not the day to day submitting the expenses. The value is that longtime history and proof.”

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SupportPay converts 12% of website visitors into paid users.

“Well, right now our conversion rate to an active user for the new users from, let's see, from all the way to, if you look at the entire marketing funnel, we're getting about a 12% from visitor to paid user.”

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Assertion Supported

SupportPay has raised $7.1 million total, including a recent Series A.

“Yes, we've raised about 7.1 million dollars. We just closed our series A in December.”

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SupportPay processes $14 million per month in child support transactions.

“We're looking at about fourteen million a month in child support.”

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