Marriage Breakdown Costs Taxpayers at Least $112 Billion a Year But Is Marriage the Answer?
A US wide research study quantifies the cost of divorce being at the very least $112 billion annually. Ben Scafidi of Georgia State University in Atlanta was commissioned by advocates of government initiatives to bolster marriages. The Institute for American Values, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Georgia Family Council, Families Northwest, consider themselves as part of a nationwide “marriage movement”. Having put a dollar value on increased taxpayer expenditures for anti-poverty, criminal justice and education programs the study goes on to suggest that the government could lower the costs by encouraging marriage. Yes divorce is being held accountable for just about every social problem there is. Last year environmentalists claimed divorce to be bad for the environment, also leveraging off the now almost global trend toward solo status. Research in this instance claimed the added costs of housing, power and waste to support two homes not one, when families divorce, was big a
