The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing

First-Ever Estimates for the Nation and for All Fifty States by Benjamin Scafidi, Principal Investigator, http://www.americanvalues.org
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An excerpt: "Why should legislators and policymakers care about marriage? Public debate on marriage in this country has focused on the “social costs” of family fragmentation (that is, divorce and unwed childbearing), and research suggests that these are indeed extensive. But marriage is more than a moral or social institution; it is also an economic one, a generator of social and human capital, especially when it comes to children."

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