Family and Child Well-being After Welfare Reform /

Family and Child Well-being After Welfare Reform / Douglas Besharov.

"Since their historic high in 1994, welfare caseloads in the United States have dropped an astounding 59 percent--more than 5 million fewer families receive welfare. Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform, now in paperback, explores how low-income children and their families are farin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Besharov, Douglas (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Routledge, 2017.
Edition:1st.
Subjects:
Child welfare > United States.
Dysfunctional families > United States.
Poor families > United States.
Public welfare > United States.
Welfare recipients > United States.
Child welfare.
Dysfunctional families.
Poor families.
Public welfare.
Welfare recipients.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction / Douglas J. Besharov
  • chapter 2 Welfare Reform and the Caseload Decline / Douglas J. Besharov
  • chapter 3 Assessing Welfare Reform’s Impact / Peter H. Rossi
  • chapter 4 Income and Expenditures / Richard Bavier
  • chapter 5 Cohabitation and Child Well-Being / Wendy D. Manning
  • chapter 6 Fatherhood, Cohabitation, and Marriage / Wade F. Horn
  • chapter 7 Teenage Sex, Pregnancy, and Nonmarital Births / Isabel V. Sawhill
  • chapter 8 Child Maltreatment and Foster Care / Richard J. Gelles
  • chapter 9 Housing Conditions and Homelessness / John C. Weicher
  • chapter 10 Child Health / Lorraine V. Klerman
  • chapter 11 Nutrition, Food Security, and Obesity / Harold S. Beebout
  • chapter 12 Crime and Juvenile Delinquency / Lawrence W. Sherman
  • chapter 13 Drug Use / Peter Reuter
  • chapter 14 Mothers’ Work and Child Care / Julia B. Isaacs
  • chapter 15 Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Don Winstead and Ann McCormick / Human Services
  • chapter 16 Conclusion / Douglas J. Besharov.

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