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?
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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?."
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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