Family and Child Well-Being After Welfare Reform

List of contents

List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Boxes, Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction, 2. Welfare Reform and the Caseload Decline, 3. Assessing Welfare Reform’s Impact, 4. Income and Expenditures, 5. Cohabitation and Child Well-Being, 6. Fatherhood, Cohabitation, and Marriage, 7. Teenage Sex, Pregnancy, and Nonmarital Births, 8. Child Maltreatment and Foster Care, 9. Housing Conditions and Homelessness, 10. Child Health, 11. Nutrition, Food Security, and Obesity, 12. Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, 13. Drug Use, 14. Mothers’ Work and Child Care, 15. Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 16. Conclusion, Contributors, Index

About the author

Douglas Besharov

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Besharov, Douglas J. Besharov
• Assisted by: Douglas Besharov (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138523395
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52339-5
• No. of pages: 305
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services