Family And Child Well Being After Welfare Reform

Author : Douglas Besharov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351520508

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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. 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.

Author : Douglas Besharov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138523399

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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. 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.

Author : Douglas J. Besharov
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0765801884

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The contributors find little evidence that welfare reform has hurt the poor, especially poor children, as was once feared. Topics vital to low-income families are assessed, including ongoing major research in material well-being and income, marriage and cohabitation, births, child maltreatment and foster care, housing, nutrition, crime and dysfunctional behavior, and the activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Author : Greg J. Duncan,Lindsay P. Chase-Lansdale
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610448284

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For Better and For Worse by Greg J. Duncan,Lindsay P. Chase-Lansdale Pdf

The 1996 welfare reform bill marked the beginning of a new era in public assistance. Although the new law has reduced welfare rolls, falling caseloads do not necessarily mean a better standard of living for families. In For Better and For Worse, editors Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and a roster of distinguished experts examine the evidence and evaluate whether welfare reform has met one of its chief goals-improving the well-being of the nation's poor children. For Better and For Worse opens with a lively political history of the welfare reform legislation, which demonstrates how conservative politicians capitalize on public concern over such social problems as single parenthood to win support for the radical reforms. Part I reviews how individual states redesigned, implemented, and are managing their welfare systems. These chapters show that most states appear to view maternal employment, rather that income enhancement and marriage, as key to improving child well-being. Part II focuses on national and multistate evaluations of the changes in welfare to examine how families and children are actually faring under the new system. These chapters suggest that work-focused reforms have not hurt children, and that reforms that provide financial support for working families can actually enhance children's development. Part III presents a variety of perspectives on policy options for the future. Remarkable here is the common ground for both liberals and conservatives on the need to support work and at the same time strengthen safety-net programs such as Food Stamps. Although welfare reform-along with the Earned Income Tax Credit and the booming economy of the nineties-has helped bring mothers into the labor force and some children out of poverty, the nation still faces daunting challenges in helping single parents become permanent members of the workforce. For Better and For Worse gathers the most recent data on the effects of welfare reform in one timely volume focused on improving the life chances of poor children.

Author : M. Anne Powell,Joyce Burris,Chloe Bullard,Leigh Maxwell,Kendra Crenshaw,California State Library. Foundation
Publisher : California State Library Foundation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Aid to families with dependent children programs
ISBN : UCSD:31822026352682

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Welfare Reform and Family and Child Well-being by M. Anne Powell,Joyce Burris,Chloe Bullard,Leigh Maxwell,Kendra Crenshaw,California State Library. Foundation Pdf

Author : Gerald R Adams,Gary Cameron,Nick Coady
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780889205185

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Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare by Gerald R Adams,Gary Cameron,Nick Coady Pdf

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book draws inspiration from experiences with three broad, international child welfare paradigms—child protection, family service, and community healing/caring (First Nations)—to look at how specific practices in other countries, as well as alternative experiments in Canada, might foster positive innovations in the Canadian child welfare approach. Foundational values and purposes, systems design and policy, and organization and management are discussed, as are front-line service delivery, service provider work environments, and the realities of daily living for families. Informed by recent research, the contributors provide clear directions for policy, administration, and service-delivery reforms. Informing policy debates addressing child maltreatment and family welfare, this book will serve as a vital resource for managers, service providers, professionals, and students in the fields of social work, child and youth care, family studies, psychology, and special education.

Author : Rachel A. Gordon,Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441992741

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Changing Welfare by Rachel A. Gordon,Herbert J. Walberg Pdf

This book is concerned with the sweeping changes that took place in public assistance programs at the end of the 20th century and the way in which the original and reformed versions of these programs relate to the well-being of children and their families. It is a valuable reference for practitioners and policymakers who are concerned with children and child-related issues, psychologists, sociologists, social workers, social program administrators, and students in psychology, social work, sociology, political science, and education.

Author : Rucker C. Johnson,Ariel Kalil,Rachel Elizabeth Dunifon
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780880993562

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Mothers' Work and Children's Lives by Rucker C. Johnson,Ariel Kalil,Rachel Elizabeth Dunifon Pdf

This book examines the effects of work requirements imposed by welfare reform on low-income women and their families. The authors pay particular attention to the nature of work, whether it is stable or unstable, the number of hours worked in a week, and regularity and flexibility of work schedules. They also show how these factors make it more difficult for low-income women to balance work and family requirements.

Author : Greg J. Duncan,Lindsay P. Chase-Lansdale
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0871542455

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For Better and For Worse by Greg J. Duncan,Lindsay P. Chase-Lansdale Pdf

The 1996 welfare reform bill marked the beginning of a new era in public assistance. Although the new law has reduced welfare rolls, falling caseloads do not necessarily mean a better standard of living for families. In For Better and For Worse, editors Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and a roster of distinguished experts examine the evidence and evaluate whether welfare reform has met one of its chief goals-improving the well-being of the nation's poor children. For Better and For Worse opens with a lively political history of the welfare reform legislation, which demonstrates how conservative politicians capitalize on public concern over such social problems as single parenthood to win support for the radical reforms. Part I reviews how individual states redesigned, implemented, and are managing their welfare systems. These chapters show that most states appear to view maternal employment, rather that income enhancement and marriage, as key to improving child well-being. Part II focuses on national and multistate evaluations of the changes in welfare to examine how families and children are actually faring under the new system. These chapters suggest that work-focused reforms have not hurt children, and that reforms that provide financial support for working families can actually enhance children's development. Part III presents a variety of perspectives on policy options for the future. Remarkable here is the common ground for both liberals and conservatives on the need to support work and at the same time strengthen safety-net programs such as Food Stamps. Although welfare reform-along with the Earned Income Tax Credit and the booming economy of the nineties-has helped bring mothers into the labor force and some children out of poverty, the nation still faces daunting challenges in helping single parents become permanent members of the workforce. For Better and For Worse gathers the most recent data on the effects of welfare reform in one timely volume focused on improving the life chances of poor children.

Author : Lawrence B. Joseph
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0962675555

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Families, Poverty, and Welfare Reform by Lawrence B. Joseph Pdf

This volume combines essays by public policy scholars with comments by social project directors who speak from their experiences in the field. Essays include critical assessments of policies to reduce dependency on welfare and a discussion of the effects of poverty on women and children, as well as a look at welfare reform in Illinois.

Author : Jane Knitzer,Nancy K. Cauthen,Ellen Eliason Kisker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : OCLC:46322327

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Enhancing the Well-being of Young Children and Families in the Context of Welfare Reform by Jane Knitzer,Nancy K. Cauthen,Ellen Eliason Kisker Pdf

Author : Jane Scott,Harriet Ward
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781843101413

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Safeguarding and Promoting the Well-being of Children, Families and Their Communities by Jane Scott,Harriet Ward Pdf

Some chapters based on papers originally given at the Fifth International Looking After Children Conference held in Oxford, England in Sept. 2002.

Author : M. Anne Powell,Leigh Maxwell,Kendra Crenshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756710006

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Welfare Reform and Family and Child Well-Being by M. Anne Powell,Leigh Maxwell,Kendra Crenshaw Pdf

Examines how welfare reform (WR) will affect families and children, and in particular the implications for child welfare (CW) services. Helps you to understand the connection between public welfare and CW, and the implications of WR for CW services. Chapters: understanding the families on welfare who receive CW services; combined TANF (Temp. Assist. for Needy Families) and CW services and the El Paso County, CO experience; state level CW and TANF policy consid.; California's children: demographics assoc. with child maltreatment, poverty, public assist. and CW services; a history of public assist. and CW progr.; state and Fed. CW statutes; and WR and children: implications.

Author : National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309056892

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New Findings on Welfare and Children's Development by National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Pdf

Author : Avis Jones-DeWeever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poor families
ISBN : UOM:39015059285513

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Before and After Welfare Reform by Avis Jones-DeWeever Pdf