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Child support and parent-child contact
Belinda Fehlberg and Bruce SmythAbstract
Recent proposals to change the Child Support Scheme focused on two important issues: the financial costs of parent-child contact for non-resident parents, and the relationship between contact and the payment of child support. This article draws on a literature review undertaken as part of the Institute of Family Studies Australian Divorce Transitions Project, in order to bring to the fore research that is relevant to questions surrounding the costs of contact for non-resident parents, and the contact- child support nexus.
Recent proposals to change the Child Support Scheme focused on two important issues: the financial costs of parent-child contact for non-resident parents, and the relationship between contact and the payment of child support. This article draws on a literature review undertaken as part of the Institute of Family Studies Australian Divorce Transitions Project, in order to bring to the fore research that is relevant to questions surrounding the costs of contact for non-resident parents, and the contact- child support nexus.
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Features
- Development of civic mindedness in Australian adolescents: Australian Temperament Project
- Social capital and social security: Lessons from research
- Children? No children? Effects of changing personal relationships on decisions about having children
- Child support and parent-child contact
- Low income parents paying income support: Evaluation of the introduction of a $260 minimum child support assessment
- Single mum or single dad?: Effects of parent residency arrangements on primary school-aged children
- Parental involvement of unwed non-resident fathers
- Multiple risk exposure and likelihood of welfare receipt: Implications for social policy and human capital
- Valuing young lives: National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and its evaluation
- New Zealand property rights legislation: A changing landscape
- Stronger Families and Communities Strategy
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- Letters: Making a meal of divorce
- Families in the news
- CommunityLink initiative
- AIFS Director at Asia and Pacific Region conference
- Australian Temperament Project book launch
- Family law update: New legislative developments
- Marriage celebrant reform
- Family database: Bibliography on child support
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