POVERTY ALIMONY AND DURATION PROBLEM

Alimony and Efficiency : The Gendered Costs and Benefits of the Economic Justification for Alimony

This paper will analyze the emerging law and economics justification for alimony. It will argue that while the economic justification for alimony contains some important insights, feminists and other family law scholars should ultimately be wary of attempting to justify postdivorce incomesharing by relying primarily on economic efficiency grounds. Part I of the paper will briefly sketch the his...

Alimony and public income support: fifteen countries.

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Poverty Duration, Maternal Psychological Resources, and Adolescent Socioemotional Outcomes

This study seeks to assess the impact of maternal psychological well-being on the depression and anxiety levels and social withdrawal in a sample of young African American and Caucasian adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 (N = 854) using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 child sample. Analyses using structural equation modeling found (a) that the duration of time mo...

Mealtime duration in problem and non-problem eaters.

Young children commonly encounter difficulties at mealtimes, which are important to address early to avoid the maintenance of problematic eating behaviour. Amongst these are drawn-out meals, which some research has associated with more mealtime problems. However, research on meal duration, and therefore guidelines for appropriate meal length, is lacking. This research aimed to compare the meal ...

A Duration Analysis of Poverty Transitions in Rural Kenya