Hakovirta, Mia, Meyer, Daniel and Skinner, Christine Bridget orcid.org/0000-0001-8548-9009 (2022) Child Support in shared Care Cases:Do Child support Policies in 13 Countries Reflect Family Policy Models. Social Policy and Society. pp. 542-559. ISSN 1475-3073
Abstract
Increasingly, parents in separated families expect to equally share care of their children post-separation. In this article we extend a well-known family policy model to generate hypotheses about the level of child support to be paid by separated parents when children live primarily with their mother (‘sole custody’) in contrast to when children spend equal time with both parents (‘shared care’). We test these hypotheses with data collected from 13 countries. In sole custody cases, countries with an earner-carer policy model do have lower child support expectations than countries with a traditional family policy model or a market-oriented model, as predicted. Countries with a traditional family policy model do have the highest orders in the shared case, as predicted. However, there is as much variation within models as there is between, suggesting new analytic frameworks for considering child support in family policy need to be developed.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2021. |
Keywords: | child support, child maintenance, shared care, shared physical custody, family policy, comparative studies |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Social Policy and Social Work (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2021 15:10 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:41 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000300 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1474746421000300 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173519 |
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