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Family and Child Well-being After Welfare Reform

Douglas Besharov
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adolescent risk behaviors
AFCARS Data
Ann Mccormick
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Caseload Decline
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child poverty outcomes
Cohabiting Couple Household
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Don Winstead
Douglas J. Besharov
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Female Family Heads
Harold S. Beebout
household composition studies
Isabel V. Sawhill
John C. Weicher
Julia B. Isaacs
Lawrence W. Sherman
Left Welfare
Lorraine V. Klerman
Low Income Renters
maternal employment effects
MEPS
National Crime Victimization Survey
NCANDS Data
Nonmarital Births
Nonmarital Childbearing
Peter Germanis
Peter H. Rossi
Peter Reuter
post-reform family welfare assessment
quantitative survey methods
Richard Bavier
Richard J. Gelles
Severe Physical Problems
SIPP Data
SIPP Panel
social policy analysis
State Administrative Data
TANF Caseload
TANF Leaver
TANF Participant
TANF Participation
TANF Recipient
TANF Roll
Wade F. Horn
Welfare Leavers
Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform Impact
Wendy D. Manning

Product details

  • ISBN 9780765808455
  • Weight: 521g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Aug 2004
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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 faring in the wake of welfare reform. Contributors to the volume include leading social researchers. Can existing surveys and other data be used to measure trends in the area? What key indicators should be tracked? What are the initial trends after welfare reform? What other information or approaches would be helpful? The book covers a broad range of topics: an update on welfare reform (Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis); ongoing major research (Peter H. Rossi); material well-being, such as earnings, benefits, and consumption (Richard Bavier); family versus household (Wendy D. Manning); fatherhood, cohabitation, and marriage (Wade F. Horn); teenage sex, pregnancy, and nonmarital births (Isabel V. Sawhill); child maltreatment and foster care (Richard J. Gelles); homelessness and housing (John C. Weicher); child health and well-being (Lorraine V. Klerman); nutrition, food security, and obesity (Harold S. Beebout); crime, juvenile delinquency, and dysfunctional behavior (Lawrence W. Sherman); drug use (Peter Reuter); mothers' work and child care (Julia B. Isaacs); and the activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Don Winstead and Ann McCormick). When welfare reform was first debated, many people feared that it would hurt the poor, especially children. The contributors find little evidence to suggest this has occurred. As time limits and other programmatic requirements take hold, more information will be needed to assess the condition of low-income families after welfare reform. This informative volume establishes a baseline for that assessment.
About Douglas Besharov
Douglas J. Besharov is the Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, where he directs its Welfare Reform Academy. Among his recent publications are Rethinking WIC: An Evaluation of the Women, Infants, and Children Program (with Peter Germanis) and America's Disconnected Youth.

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