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Single Parents and Child Support Systems: An International Comparison

Single Parents and Child Support Systems: An International Comparison

Author: Kay Cook; Thomas Meysen; Adrienne Byrt
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781800882393
Published In: February 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Taking a novel approach to child support policy analysis, Single Parents and Child Support Systems locates the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem and compares the political, institutional and administrative dimensions of child support policy enactment across the globe.

Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary collective of researchers in social policy, social work, sociology, economics and law, the book assesses how child support policies align conceptually with other social policies. Single Parents and Child Support Systems begins by setting out how children’s and single parents’ economic welfare is conceived across countries in relation to the triple burden of financial, caring and administrative responsibilities faced by single mothers. Chapters map how post-separation child support policy reinforces or breaks from the gender and family logics that underpin welfare and family policies in 10 different countries spanning corporatist, liberal and Nordic welfare regimes.

Offering extensive coverage of a diverse range of international legal provisions and social policies, this stimulating book will be an essential resource for academics and researchers of social policy, social work, family law and gender studies. Its practical insights and suggested avenues for reform will also benefit policy makers, child support administrators and legal professionals.

Introduction to Single Parents and Child Support Systems xi

Kay Cook, Thomas Meysen, and Adrienne Byrt

Poverty, gender and child support systems in comparative perspective 1

Adedayo Adelakun, Olanike S. Adelakun, Marisa Lo Bartolo, Christina Boll, Rhonda Breitkreuz, Adrienne

Byrt, Yiyoon Chung, Kay Cook, Laura Cuesta, Alisha Griffin, Angela Guarin, Mari Haapanen, Mia Hakovirta,

Yoonkyung Kim, Eric Lee, Thomas Meysen, Zarina Md Nor, Hannah Roots, Sarah Sinclair, and Christine Skinner

The tensions embedded within parents’ access to and the administration of child support: A cross-country

conceptual framework 20

Adrienne Byrt, Kay Cook, and Thomas Meysen

Australia’s child support system in the context of the welfare system and demographic change 32

Kay Cook and Sarah Sinclair

The child support system in Canada: An overview 50