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Originally Posted by Still Growing  Is the cost really $30 billion in tax dollars contributed these divorces? What do you see? |
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Marriages that end in divorce also are very costly to the public. One researcher determined that a single divorce costs state and federal governments about $30,000, based on such things as the higher use of food stamps and public housing as well as increased bankruptcies and juvenile delinquency. The nation’s 1.4 million divorces in 2002 are estimated to have cost the taxpayers more than $30 billion.
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State of Our Unions 2007
It seems like a vague number to me. There would be delinquent kids and bankruptcies without divorce. I don't know exactly how you separate an individual social ill or statistic and attribute it directly to divorce.
If you want creative ideas, maybe we could encourage divorce as part of a stimulus package, since divorce employs so many people - counselors, police, real estate agents, bill collectors, tow truck operators, pawn shop workers, plastic surgeons...the list goes on.