Children: A Reward, a Gift, or an Award?

During a divorce, a child basically has a huge price on his or her head: The child is typically worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in child support to the parent getting custody. There's no question that parents love their children, and would want custody irrespective of the amount of child support, but the fact that such a huge amount of money comes with the child substantially distorts the child-custody problem.

Even worse, the child-support issue generates bitterness and hatred between the parents that lasts for decades, and affects the children adversely.

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