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Assuring Child Support: A Re-assessment in Honor of Alfred Kahn

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From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being

Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research ((CHIR,volume 1))

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The American system of assuring child support directly affects most parents and children and indirectly affects all Americans. By child support we mean transfers to custodial parents (mostly mothers)1 from either nonresident parents or taxpayers. More than one half of American children now spend part of their childhood living apart from one of their parents. The system indirectly affects all Americans because of its impact on transfers and taxes and on future generations.

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  1. School of Social Work, Columbia University, 10027, New York, USA

    Irwin Garfinkel & Lenna Nepomnyaschy

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  1. School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, 10027, New York, NY, USA

    Sheila B. Kamerman

  2. Dept. Economics, Dalhousie University, B3H 3J5, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Shelley Phipps

  3. Hebrew University of Jerusalem Paul Baerwald School of Social Work & Social Welfare Giv’at Ram, 91905, Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Israel

    Asher Ben-Arieh

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Garfinkel, I., Nepomnyaschy, L. (2010). Assuring Child Support: A Re-assessment in Honor of Alfred Kahn. In: Kamerman, S.B., Phipps, S., Ben-Arieh, A. (eds) From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_14

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