Download or read book The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing written by Benjamin Scafidi and published by Broadway Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides the first rigorous estimate of the costs to U.S. taxpayer high rates of divorce and unmarried childbearing both at the national and state levels. Based on the methodology, we estimated that U.S. taxpayers were affected at least $112 billion each and every year, or more than $1 trillion each decade.