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April 14, 2008

The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing: First-Ever Estimates for the Nation and All Fifty States

Divorce and unwed childbearing impose direct costs on government that are at least as much per year as the Iraq war -- $112 billion per year, even using the most methodologically cautious assumptions, says a new report published by the Institute for American Values.  

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