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Title: Impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform on Child and Family Well-being
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Lee, Kyunghee |
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Impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform on Child and Family Well-being Journal of Community Psychology 37,5 (July 2009): 602-617. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcop.20320/abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Office of University Partnerships - OUP Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Economic Well-Being; Family Income; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article examined the impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform, based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Using a sample of 1,681 single mothers living in poverty, this study compared the effects of economic well-being and home environment scores on their children during pre- and post-Welfare Reform years. Following the 1996 Welfare Reform, fewer mothers received cash payments, and those who did received lower payments, while more mothers worked at low-paying jobs. Negative impacts were more pronounced for less educated mothers. The effects of family income and home environment scores on children were different before and after the 1996 Welfare Reform. Maternal education moderated these associations. Instead of enforcing the current "work first" mandate, this research supports giving priority to maternal education to enhance child and family well-being in low-income families. (c) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Lee, Kyunghee. "Impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform on Child and Family Well-being." Journal of Community Psychology 37,5 (July 2009): 602-617.
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