Marriage Reduces Tax Expenditures

Divorced and unmarried childbearing create substantial taxpayer costs, born by the public at large. Higher rates of crime, drug abuse, education failure, chronic illness, child abuse, domestic violence, and poverty lead to higher public outlays for a wide array of programs: e.g. welfare, food stamps and Medicaid, increased remedial and special education, high day-care subsidies, child support collection services, increased Medicare and increases in prison and police expenditures.

Maggie Gallagher, “Why Supporting Marriage Makes Business Sense.”  Corporate Research Council paper.