Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Study: Divorce, illegitimate kids costing taxpayers $112 billion

One reason I suppose it was frowned upon in the good old days.

NEW YORK - Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing costs U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, according to a study commissioned by groups advocating government action to bolster marriage.

There have been previous attempts to calculate the cost of divorce in America. But the sponsors of the new study, being released today, said theirs is the first to gauge the broader cost of “family fragmentation” - both divorce and unwed childbearing.

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