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Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families
Greg J. Duncan, P.Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
ISBN: 9780871542458
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Russell Sage Foundation
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Scholars of child development, social work, public policy, sociology, economics, anthropology, and human ecology consider the impact of welfare reform on America's poorest children. The book offers a political history of the reform legislation, describes state-level efforts to re-design welfare programs, and examines how families with children are
Scholars of child development, social work, public policy, sociology, economics, anthropology, and human ecology consider the impact of welfare reform on America's poorest children. The book offers a political history of the reform legislation, describes state-level efforts to re-design welfare programs, and examines how families with children are
| ISBN | 0871542455 | | Pages | 344 | | ISBN13 | 9780871542458
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation | | Weight (grammes) | 700 | | Imprint | Russell Sage Foundation | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 239 | | Publication date | 01 Nov 2001 | | Width (mm) | 177 | | Library of Congress | HV741 | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY | 362.70973 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Contributors | | | | Pt. I | | Introduction and Policy Context | | | | Ch. 1 | | For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families by Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale | | 3 | | Ch. 2 | | Liberal and Conservative Influences on the Welfare Reform Legislation of 1996 by Ron Haskins | | 9 | | Pt. II | | What States are Thinking and Doing | | | | Ch. 3 | | Welfare Reform, Management Systems, and Policy Theories of Child Well-Being by Cathy M. Johnson and Thomas L. Gais | | 37 | | Ch. 4 | | How do State Policymakers Think About Family Processes and Child Development in Low-Income Families? by Kristin Anderson Moore | | 53 | | Ch. 5 | | Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution by Alan Weil | | 63 | | Ch. 6 | | Sanctions and Exits: What States Know About Families that Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and Time Limits by Jack Tweedie | | 81 | | Pt. III | | How Families and Children are Faring | | | | Ch. 7 | | How Different are Welfare and Working Families? And Do these Differences Matter for Children's Achievement? by Greg J. Duncan and Rachel E. Dunifon and Morgan B. Ward Doran | | 103 | | Ch. 8 | | My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-Offs and Marriage by Ellen K. Scott and Kathryn Edin and Andrew S. London | | 132 | | Ch. 9 | | Does Maternal Employment Mandated by Welfare Reform Affect Children's Behavior? by Ariel Kalil and Rachel E. Dunifon and Sandra K. Danziger | | 154 | | Ch. 10 | | Lessons from New Hope: The Impact on Children's Well-Being of a Work-Based Antipoverty Program for Parents by Rashmita S. Mistry and Danielle A. Crosby and Aletha C. Huston | | 179 | | Ch. 11 | | How Families View and Use Lump-Sum Payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit by Jennifer L. Romich and Thomas S. Weisner | | 201 | | Ch. 12 | | Welfare Waivers and Nonmarital Childbearing by Ann E. Horvath-Rose and H. Elizabeth Peters | | 222 | | Pt. IV | | Policy Approaches and Options for the Future | | | | | More... | | |
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