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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 who book address a broad range of topics.
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Sixteen American social researchers from both the political left and right contribute to this text, one in a series of reports from a project undertaken by the U. of Maryland's Welfare Reform Academy. Coverage includes welfare reform and the caseload decline, an assessment of welfare reform's impact, and discussions of key areas of family and child well-being, including income and expenditures; cohabitation and child well- being; fatherhood, cohabitation,and marriage; teenage sex, pregnancy, and nonmarital births; child maltreatment and foster care; housing conditions; homelessness; child health; nutrition; obesity; crime and juvenile delinquency; drug use; and mothers' work and child care. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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