The Anatomy of Canada’s Child Support Guidelines: The Effects, Details, and History of a Feminist Family Policy
38 Pages Posted: 30 Jul 2009
Abstract
Recent studies have shown that Canada’s Child Support Guidelines, adapted from the U.S. “Wisconsin” model, have serious negative incentive effects on marriage stability. The source of this outcome is found in the design of the guidelines, which consistently transfer net wealth to the custodial parent. This paper examines the details of Canada’s guidelines, and then traces backwards to their source. It argues that the guidelines are the logical implication of family policy based on feminist theories of the family. The paper concludes that an institutional view of the family is a better model to base family law on.
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Allen, Douglas W., The Anatomy of Canada’s Child Support Guidelines: The Effects, Details, and History
of a Feminist Family Policy. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1441607 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1441607
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