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Excerpt from Family Economics Review, 1986, Vol. 2 The mean amount of child support for women who received payments in 1983 was compared with received in 1978. After adjusting for inflation during the period from 1978, the average child support payment showed a l5-percent decrease from the 1978 figure. However, child support payments as a percentage of the average income of men remained at about 13 percent during this period. As in the previous two surveys, the women most likely to be awarded and to receive child support payments were white women and women with 4 or more years of college. Women with voluntary written agreements received 88 percent of the amount they were due, whereas women with court-ordered payments received only 58 percent of the amount due. Of the million ever-divorced or currently separated women as of spring 1984, 14 percent were awarded alimony payments. The alimony award rate did not change significantly from that reported in the two previous surveys. The mean amount of alimony received by women in 1983 was which represents 22 percent of the average income of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.