Child Support and Alimony: 1978 (Advance Report)

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Child Support and Alimony: 1978 (Advance Report)

Report Number: P23-106
Child Support and Alimony: 1978 (Advance Report)
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This report contains data on child support and alimony that were collected in a special supplement to the April 1979 Current Population Survey.

This report presents information on child support for women with children present and alimony or maintenance payments agreed to or awarded to ever-divorced or currently separated women, by selected characteristics of all women and women with income below the poverty level; recipiency of child support income by type of arrangement; and property settlement following divorce for ever-divorced women, by selected characteristics.

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