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For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families »

Authors: Greg J. Duncan (Editor), P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
ISBN-13: 9780871542632, ISBN-10: 0871542633
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Greg J. Duncan

Book Synopsis

	Contributors	vii
Part I	Introduction and Policy Context
Chapter 1	For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families	3
Chapter 2	Liberal and Conservative Influences on the Welfare Reform Legislation of 1996	9
Part II	What States are Thinking and Doing
Chapter 3	Welfare Reform, Management Systems, and Policy Theories of Child Well-Being	37
Chapter 4	How Do State Policymakers Think About Family Processes and Child Development in Low-Income Families?	53
Chapter 5	Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution	63
Chapter 6	Sanctions and Exits: What States Know About Families that Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and Time Limits	81
Part III	How Families and Children are Faring
Chapter 7	How Different are Welfare and Working Families? And Do These Differences Matter for Children's Achievement?	103
Chapter 8	My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-Tanf Views of Work-Family Trade-Offs and Marriage	132
Chapter 9	Does Maternal Employment Mandated by Welfare Reform Affect Children's Behavior?	154
Chapter 10	Lessons from New Hope: The Impact on Children's Well-Being of a Work-Based Antipoverty Program for Parents	179
Chapter 11	How Families View and Use Lump-Sum Payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit	201
Chapter 12	Welfare Waivers and Nonmarital Childbearing	222
Part IV	Policy Approaches and Options for the Future
Chapter 13	Reducing Child Poverty by Improving the Work-Based Safety Net	247
Chapter 14	Effects of Welfare Reform at Four Years	264
Chapter 15	Reforming the Social Family Contract: Public Support for Child Rearing in the United States	290
Chapter 16	Lessons Learned	307
	Index	323