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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
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- Subject: do 90% men pay the bills?
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 23:40:26 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Keywords: child support
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- Quoting from the Economist, 12/26/92, p.39:
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- " Divorce also affects living standards. Men may actually see their
- disposable incomes rise, especially if they pay little or no child support.
- Official American figures for 1989 found that 41% of all divorced and
- seperated women living with children under 21 received nothing from their
- former husbands; the rest received on average just over $3000 a year.
- The predictable upshot is that women and children are poorer. A study
- of American families who have been interviewed each year since 1968 finds
- that separated and divorced women suffer an average fall of about 30% in
- their incomes in the year after their marriage breaks up. The worst hurt
- are middle-class wives who have stayed at home. But 31% of all wives
- whose incomes were above average when they were married found that their
- living standards fell by more than half in the first year after their
- marriages collapsed."
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- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
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