Financial Statistics Reveal Compelling Divorce Data
The Financial and Emotional Impact for Kids of Divorce – What do the Statistics Really Say?
I have always found statistics and research studies quite interesting. I like to look at them to see how they compare to my own perceptions and life experiences.
As a divorce lawyer for 40 plus years, and publisher of the Ohio Family Law Blog since 2009, keeping on top of divorce trends is something I enjoy doing. In searching the internet recently, I came across the website www.financesonline.com. I found this website to have an amazingly broad aggregation of divorce related information and statistics (including footnotes to their sources). I spent a fair amount of time reading it and thought sharing the link might be worthwhile to our blog readers. Here is a sample section. Perhaps it will pique your interest!
EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN:
- Divorced spouses evade over 30% of child support payments, with less than 50% paid in full. (Leefeldt, 2019)
- Moreover, only 43.5% of custodial parents receive full support from their former spouses. (Leefeldt, 2019)
- In addition, more than $10 billion in child support payments in the US go uncollected. (Leefeldt, 2019)
- 26.5%