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.
See summary on the Family Scholars Blog.
Full report pdf here.
To get complete information and citations, you should also review the Divorce Statistics Collection’s page on your topic:
Correlations with Other Factors: Age | Alcoholic parents | Children of Divorce Getting Divorced
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Cohabitation | Current Events| Gender of Children | Laws | Marriage education programs | Occupation | Poverty | Race | Region | Religion | Smoking | Unrealistic Expectations
Effects on Society: Domestic Violence | Social-Economic-Taxpayer Costs | Effects on Black Community
Effects on Divorced People: Domestic Violence | Economic | Happiness | Physical and Mental Health
Effects on Children: Generally | Child Abuse | Poverty | Crime | Crime | Physical Health | Mental Health/Behavioral | Social Skills/Adjustment | Suicide | Teen & single parenthood | Exposure to family
conflict | Stepfamilies | African American Children
Other: Summary of Our Findings So Far| Causes of individual divorces
