Its purposes and aims are: • to promote and advance research and policy regarding family and marriage • to participate in social analysis and debate surrounding issues relating to and affecting the family • to educate the public in their understanding of the institutional, legal and moral framework that makes a just and democratic society possible • to produce and publish relevant and stimulating. [...] 7 Family breakdown and decreasing marriage rates also lead to social costs by increasing the fiscal costs to taxpayers The fiscal cost to the taxpayer through increasing take-up of government programmes of family breakdown and (e.g., the number of children and adults in need of income decreasing marriage rates has been estimated at around assistance) and through influencing the social problems $2. [...] It was almost fifty percent higher than the rate of the European Union (8.57), and nearly twice the rate in Canada (7.33 in 2020), and three and a half times the rate in Japan and five times the rate in Switzerland. [...] 2.4 Sole parents When discussing rates of sole parenthood, it is important It is important to note that a to note that, although the discussion below emphasises the proportion of sole parents are legal marriage rates of sole parents, a proportion of sole in de facto relationships at the parents are in de facto relationships at the time of the birth time of the birth of their first of their first c. [...] To illustrate the incidence and depth of marriage penalties and poverty traps in the previous report, the NZIER developed a model that calculated the interaction of these family income 26 assistance programmes for a range of family types, and which contained the programmes listed above (Nolan, 2008).
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