A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Poverty, gender and child support systems in comparative perspective
Authors: Adelakun Adedayo, Adelakun Olanike S, Lo Bartolo Marisa, Boll Christina, Breitkreuz Rhonda, Byrt Adrienne, Chung Yiyoon, Cook Kay, Cuesta Laura, Griffin Alisha, Guarin Angela, Haapanen Mari, Hakovirta Mia, Kim Yoonkung, Lee Eric, Meysen Thomas, Md Nor Zarina, Roots Hannah, Sinclair Sarah, Skinner Christine
Editors: Cook Kay, Meysen Thomas, Byrt Adrienne
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Publishing place: Cheltenham
Publication year: 2024
Book title : Single Parents and Child Support Systems : An International Comparison
Journal name in source: Single Parents and Child Support Systems
Series title: New Horizons in Social Policy Series
First page : 1
Last page: 19
Number of pages: 246
ISBN: 978-1-80088-239-3
eISBN: 978-1-80088-240-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882409.00006(external)
Child support systems vary across countries by way of technical procedures, enforcement, and underlying purposes. The payment of child support can influence the financial wellbeing of separated parents, particularly mothers, and their children. In this chapter, international perspectives are compared through the chronology of access to each child support system, to the calculation of payment amounts, through to the collection of payments, and finally, their enforcement. This chapter does not critique each system but offers a way of understanding its distinctiveness, shared purposes, and technical procedures. It describes how the features of national child support systems differ or are constant across countries, and how they underpin each country’s current struggles with how to resource children living apart from one parent.
