It is internationally recognized that parents have a responsibility to raise their children. This includes providing adequate financial support and a nurturing environment. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child declares the development and upbringing of a child, or children, is the responsibility of both parents, and this forms part of the fundamental rights of any child.
In family law and public policy, child maintenance is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child following the end of a marriage or other relationship.
Individual countries around the world have established guidelines in place, regarding the assessment, implementation and collection of child support from absent or non resident parents. Child support laws are in place in a vast majority of European, North American, Australasian and South American countries. Many African and Asian countries also have some form of child maintenance support law.
All of these countries view child maintenance as an obligation of each parent, and acknowledges that a non resident parent must provide maintenance payment to a resident parent or other legal guardian for the care and support they provide the child or children.
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