Child support and the custodial mother’s move or remarriage: What citizens believe the law should be.

Child Support and Remarriage

This paper studies the reasons for low levels of child support paid by non-custodial divorced fathers. When mothers remarry, some financial burden of raising their children shifts from fathers to step-fathers. This provides an incentive for the father to encourage mother’s remarriage through the use of strategically picked payment level. Assuming father’s income is to some degree unobservable b...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Divorce , Remarriage and Child Support ∗

Modern marriage markets display increasing turnover, with less marriage but more divorce and remarriage. As a consequence, a large number of children live in single parent and step parent households. There is substantial evidence that children of divorced parents do not perform as well as comparable children in intact families. However, there is also some evidence that this gap declines with th...

Continued Dispensing: what medications do patients believe should be available?

Background. Continued Dispensing (CD) is a new medication supply method for certain medications in Australia. It aims to prevent treatment interruption as a result of patients' inability to obtain a new valid prescription. The only currently eligible patients for this service are statin and/or oral contraceptives users who have been using these medications for 6 months or more, have not utilize...

What should the child with epilepsy be allowed to do?