421:"Continuing decline of the marriage rate accompanied by an increase in the number of cohabiting couples; a small increase in the percentage of children living in fragile families and born out of wedlock; and a sharp increase among teenage boys in their acceptance of unwed childbearing and a slight decrease in agreement among teenagers, especially girls, that "living together before getting married is a good idea." - 2004 Social Health of Marriage in America
427:"Today’s young adults are at greater risk for marital failure than any earlier generation in the nation’s history. As a consequence of the thirty years of high divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing, more and more young people are growing up with no personal life experience of successful marriage and little or no confidence that they could be in an enduring marital relationship." (See "About the Project")
550:"unpaid child support debt, which is approaching $ 100 billion, according to states' reports...Clearly, we need to design and implement more effective strategies to collect arrears...We know that about half of the debt is owed to the government, and not to the families." (See "Arrears Increase to $ 96 Billion")
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The AACAP developed Facts for
Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. The AACAP provides this important information as a public service and the Facts for Families may be duplicated and distributed free of charge as long as
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More than $ 1 billion spent to police and prosecutors to protect women from men. Since 1995, when a wife feels fearful, it is domestic violence. Divorce attorneys practice leveraging this assault charge into an order of protection to get a man out of the home, physically separating him from children
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6% of mothers and 3% of fathers self-report having physically abused their children, defined as having hit the child with a fist or kicked the child, thrown the child or knocked them down, choked or burned the child, or used a knife or gun against the
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87% of mothers and 73% of fathers reported that they hugged their children or showed them physical affection at least once a day. Similarly high percentages reported telling their children daily that they love them (See
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in which 77% of parents living apart from their children indicated that they saw them either every day, or at least once a week, or at least once a month, whereas 14% said they never saw them at all.
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providing UK Government information about the DCA's work on issues affecting children, including parenting time, and delays in the Family
Proceedings Courts under the Children Act 1989.
415:"Although some states have not formed gender bias task forces, many courts are working toward the ideal of total equality and fairness." - State Task Force Reports
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Domestic violence redefined to "seeks to control the thoughts, beliefs, or conduct of their intimate partner" (NOW) from "physical abuse" (American
Heritage).
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While 40% of children whose fathers live outside the home have no contact with their fathers, the other 60% had contact an average of 69 days in the last year
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American Bar Association to create the Family Law section in the courts, then introduced no-fault divorce law in 1960 (cf. Uniform Divorce Bill)
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intended for people who are interested in the topic of family separation and how it affects children in particular. The links here are arranged by country.
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70% of child support is paid through wage withholding dollars. Newly hired employees names are reported to a national dad database for collections.
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1 in 2 Marriages end in divorce OR, of the 4.4 million people married in 2003, statistically, all of them are divorced by
December 2004.
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Munchausen
Syndrome by Proxy: A Complex Type of Emotional Abuse Responsible for Some False Allegations of Child Abuse in Divorce
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Men are much more likely than women to believe that two parents are more effective at raising children than one parent alone.
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Child
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Constructing an
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