Assuring Child Support

Download or read book Assuring Child Support written by Irwin Garfinkel and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1992-09-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock childbirth are climbing so dramatically that over half of the next generation is likely to spend part of its childhood in single-mother families. As many as half of these families will live in poverty, caused in large measure by the failure of current government regulations to secure adequate child support from absent parents and to assure minimum support when parents cannot provide it. Assuring Child Support introduces the Child Support Assurance System, a remedy to this problem that is both feasible and affordable, a practical reform that is within the nation's grasp. "An extremely well-written and provocative book." —Eastern Economic Journal