Fertility is doubly good these days. It turns out that more and more twins are being born in the USA, reports The New York Times.
These days, one in thirty babies in the USA is a twin. While experts cite fertility drugs as one reason for the increase in twin births in America, the rest has to do with an increase in the average age at which women give birth. Biologically speaking, older women are more likely to produce more than one egg in a cycle.
That's the biology, what about the statistics?
Well, in 2009, thirty-five percent of births were to women over the age of 30. In 1980, that number was 20 percent, reports The Times.
Of course, given the decline of marriage in America, it would be wrong to assume that all these twins are being born in married households.
And where you have divorces, you have alternative living arrangements, with a greater likelihood of shared parenting. That gives rise to issues like visitation and child custody and child support.
All of these situations, tricky when there is just one child, are a little bit more complex when there are twins involved.
Take just the issue of child support for twins. In our state, child support is calculated using the Georgia child support calculator. The calculator considers a number of factors that include the financial needs of a child, the incomes of both the custodial and non-custodial parents, and the child or children's standard of living before any divorce or separation.
And, of course, the number of children involved is also a consideration. And where there are twins, there is going to be double child-support. For more information on child support in Georgia, talk to a family law attorney in your area.
Related Resources:
- Find an Atlanta Family Law attorney (FindLaw)
- State-Specific Child Support Guidelines (FindLaw)
- Changes to Child Support (FindLaw)
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