Changing Policy, Changing Practice: Mothers' Incomes and Child Support Orders  

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Meyer, Daniel R. ; Cancian, Maria

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 58 no. 03 (Aug. 1996), page 618-627.
Topik: women's earnings; single parents; child support; divorce

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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With the increasing numbers of children affected by divorce and economic vulnerability after divorce, child support is a critical concern of national policymakers. The efforts to increase child support have included a shift to numerical guidelines for the amount of child support orders. Guidelines generally reflect an income-sharing philosophy, in which support is expected of all nonresident parents, regardless of resident parent resources. We examine Wisconsin divorce cases before and after income-sharing guidelines were implemented and find that the negative impact of the mother's income on the size of child support orders has fallen substantially. A multivariate analysis is critical to this assessment; it permits us to distinguish the impact of mothers' and fathers' incomes on order amounts.

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