With increasing trends in divorce, separation, and multi-partner fertility, more families havebecome subject to child support policies. This paper explores child support receipt in 21European countries using 2017-2018 European Union Statistics on Income and LivingConditions data. We investigated: 1) cross-country differences in the prevalence and amount ofchild support received, and 2) the determinants of child support receipt among lone mothersacross countries. We found that the proportion of lone-mother families receiving child supportranged from 16 percent in Luxembourg to 75 percent in the Czech Republic, with large variationsin the amount of child support received. Our results suggested that the socioeconomiccharacteristics of lone mothers, including marital status, education, employment status, andincome, were associated with the likelihood of receiving child support in most countries but theseassociations varied significantly across countries.
Mortality by marital status in a rapidly changing society: Evidence from the Czech Republic