Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform by Douglas Besharov (Editor)

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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 ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR