Well, I must be confusing international with global. I guess more than two countries would make it international.
>>> Terrie <[log in to unmask]> 05/14/07 2:22 PM >>>
How is it NOT international? As you stated it has European and North
American content.
Unless I am confused North America alone has more than one nation and this
study seems to have 14 represented.
On 14/05/07, Diana Liw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I don't mean to discredit people's good work. Just thought that this
> doesn't seem very international to me, more European/North American
> perspective. Perhaps the rationale is that this issue is more pertinent to
> the European/North American countries as compared to the rest of the world?
>
> >>> Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]> 05/14/07 2:03
> PM >>>
> from [log in to unmask]
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> Child support policy: An international perspective
>
> Christine Skinner, Jonathan Bradshaw and Jacqueline Davidson
> A report of research carried out by the Social Policy Research Unit,
> Research Report No 405 - 2007
> University of York on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions
>
> Available online as PDF file [224p.] at:
> http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/pdf/rrep405.pdf
>
> "?..international comparisons of child maintenance schemes covering the
> following [14] countries:
> Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (Ontario), Denmark, Finland, France,
> Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
> It was hoped that the evidence from this project would contribute to
> thinking about the redesign of the child maintenance system?
>
> The study recruited national informants from 14 countries including the
> UK. They each completed a questionnaire during July 2006. These were
> analysed during
> August (2006) and the national informants then checked the analysis of the
> questionnaires, the findings therefore provide a snapshot of regimes
> across
> countries at that moment in time. In addition, secondary analysis of the
> Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) was undertaken. A first draft was completed
> in September prior to publication of the White Paper in December 2006. A
> final draft was concluded in January 2007 allowing some details of the
> White Paper to be incorporated in the report?."
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> Content
> Summary
> 1 Introduction
> 2 Context
> 2.1 Prevalence of lone parent families
> 3 Overview of child maintenance regimes
> 4 Formal assessment of child maintenance amounts
> 5 Levels of child maintenance awards
> 6 Paying, guaranteeing, enforcing and revising child maintenance
> 7 Assessing the effectiveness of child maintenance regimes
> 8 The costs of child support
> 9 The policy environment
> 10 Conclusion
> 10.1 Demographic and policy context
> 10.2 Private agreements
> 10.3 Formal agreements
> 10.4 Benefit disregard and guaranteed maintenance
> 10.5 Compliance and enforcement
> Appendix
> References
>
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