By Mavis MacLean
Divorce results in severe long term fiscal difficulties for ladies with kids. This publication appears to be like on the ideas ladies have built for dealing with those difficulties, in placing jointly an source of revenue package deal from profits, upkeep and welfare. fresh study from the USA, France and nice Britain is mentioned, and describes the very various methods in those international locations, and the way ladies are depending to varied levels at the exertions marketplace, the remarriage industry and the general public handbag.
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Targeting a benefit leads to unexpected outcomes. In France, family-related cash benefits are based on the presence of a minor child in the family with a complex system of means- and needs-related family allowances and housing benefit. soles) is limited in duration and relatively difficult to apply for, but forms a large part of the income of the usually young single mothers who apply. The specific familist pronatalist policy in France has led to the Complement Familiale reaching three-quarters of all families with a child under 3 years or with three or more children, and forms on average 12 per cent of the families income.
Many changes in family relationships and behaviour occur over the life course. Economic theory is not easily able to cope with these kinds of change over time. Sawhill (1977, 1988) who has developed a powerful critique of Becker over the past decade, takes issue with the view that individuals have the information required to make choices in the neo-classical sense. She describes the lack of information available both to the individual making a choice of whether to marry, to have a child, or to divorce; and to society as whole, particularly in a time of rapid change, about the costs imposed, for example, where a child is born to an unmarried girl, or the extent to which rigid work patterns impose additional strains on the ability of parents to combine paid work with family life.
Housing benefits are available and assessed annually, and family taxation is low. The main thrust of family support is based on means and the presence of children. The ideology is that earned income is the main component of income, but that families with children will need a supplement to the income they can earn. There is no built-in conflict between receipt of earned income and receipt of state supplementary income to help with the costs of raising children. The policy has not had a significant effect on the raising of birth rates, but has led to a high degree of successful sharing of the costs of childcare within society.