Citation

Ireland TR. J. Forensic Econ. 2007; 3(2): 73-77.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, National Association of Forensic Economics)

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Abstract

John Ward has provided the first definitive treatment of the forensic treatment of damagetso parents in the loss of a child (this journal, Ward 1989). His preferred treatment, however, provides for a significant underestimate of the value of the household services of both mother and father, but particularly the child's mother in cases when the mother is a full time homemaker. This note is designed to suggest somewhat more inclusive meaning of the investment value and a better method for projecting the investment value of time spent in mothering, fathering and other household services the parents have invested in the child.