As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining the family as a social good that, in some sense, society must pay for.

正如耶鲁大学法学教授安妮·奥尔斯托特所指出的那样，要证明父母支持子女的合理性，就必须将家庭定义为一种社会公益，而在某种意义上，社会必须为此买单。