# 2025-00638: Government Mysteriously Withdraws Child Support Inclusivity Rule Without Explanation

2025-00638, Parentage Establishment in the Child Support Services Program; Withdrawal, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15, effective 2025-01-15; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00638
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00638
- Title: Parentage Establishment in the Child Support Services Program; Withdrawal
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: 2025-01-15
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

Government Mysteriously Withdraws Child Support Inclusivity Rule Without Explanation

## Summary

The government is pulling back a plan to update child support rules to include all kinds of families, like those with same-sex parents. This means no changes will happen right now, so states and tribes keep doing things as they have been. If you’re involved in child support services, expect no new costs or deadlines from this withdrawal.

## Abstract

This document withdraws a proposed rule that was published in the Federal Register on September 26, 2023. The proposed rule would have amended the Child Support Services Program to be inclusive of all family structures served by the child support services program.

## Effects PRIA read

- Withdrawal of Parentage Rule — No Change: benefit, low. The Administration for Children and Families withdrew the proposed parentage rule on January 15, 2025. The proposed rule had been published on September 26, 2023 and would have replaced the term “paternity” with “parentage” to include all family structures; because it is withdrawn, states and tribe…

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## Sources
- [2025-00638 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00638/parentage-establishment-in-the-child-support-services-program-withdrawal)
- [2025-00638 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00638.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00638 (as of 2026-06-11).