State’s divorce, unwed childbearing price tag $455 million?
Published April 17, 2008 by CSBJ Staff
A study released today estimates that Colorado taxpayers shoulder a $455 million burden every year as a result of divorce and unmarried childbearing.
The study, The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing, estimates state and local costs resulting from the breakdown of the traditional family have reached more than $1 trillion over the last decade.
Four policy and research groups sponsored the study, the Institute for American Values, Georgia Family Council, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and Families Northwest.
“Beyond the suffering and pain of broken families, a tragedy whose implications we all know too well, this study proves there is a high public cost to divorce and out-of-wedlock childbirth, making the social institution of marriage a public issue,” said Jim Pfaff, president of the Colorado Family Institute. “Even a one percent reduction in the rate of family fragmentation will save Coloradans a lot of taxpayer dollars.”
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And to think…homosexuals have nothing to do with this issue. Good to know we’re not the total cause of the downfall of marriage in the US. Ya can’t get a divorce if ya can’t get married!
Why are my tax $$ being spent on divorce?
I can see where unmarried childbearing can be an issue,
but divorce!
That is a true waste of my tax dollars.