Assuring Child Support: An Extension of Social Security

by Irwin Garfinkel

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087154301X
• ISBN13: 9780871543011
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.