Battered Women, Children, and Welfare Reform The Ties That Bind

by Ruth A. Brandwein

• ISBN13: 9780761911487
• ISBN10: 0761911480
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-16
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

Two topics of current concern - domestic violence and welfare reform - are linked in this timely book, which has been developed by leading academics, practitioners, advocates, policymakers and abused welfare recipients.The chapters explore various threads that link family violence to welfare including: how public assistance can provide the financial support necessary for escaping violence; how batterers restrict their partner's employment and educational opportunities, thereby preventing them from being independent of the welfare system; how child-support regulations require disclosure about abusers that may increase the danger of family violence; and how child abuse is linked to the need for welfare.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Foreword	xi
Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink
PART I: INTRODUCTION	3	(14)
1. Family Violence, Women, and Welfare	3	(14)
Ruth A. Brandwein
PART II: PARTNER ABUSE	17	(92)
2. The Economics of Abuse: How Violence Perpetuates Women's Poverty	17	(14)
Martha F. Davis
3. Keeping Women Poor: Flow Domestic Violence Prevents Women From Leaving Welfare and Entering the World of Work	31	(14)
Jody Raphael
4. Family Violence and Welfare Use: Report From the Field	45	(14)
Ruth A. Brandwein
5. Pursuing Child Support for Victims of Domestic Violence	59	(20)
Paula Roberts
6. Domestic Violence Victims and Welfare Services: A Practitioner's View	79	(16)
Diane M. Stuart
7. Voices of the Women: Survivors of Domestic Violence and Welfare	95	(14)
Annie Boone
Ginger Erickson
Melissa Arch-Walton
PART III: CHILD ABUSE	109	(38)
8. Doing the Triple Combination: Negotiating the Domestic Violence, Child Welfare, and Welfare Systems	109	(12)
Diana May Pearce
9. Connections Between Child Abuse and Welfare: One State's Story	121	(10)
Ruth A. Brandwein
10. Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Forgotten Issue in Adolescent Pregnancy and Welfare Reform	131	(16)
Debra Boyer
PART IV: CONCLUSION	147	(26)
11. Family Violence and Social Policy: Welfare "Reform" and Beyond	147	(26)
Ruth A. Brandwein
Author Index	173	(4)
Subject Index	177	(6)
About the Contributors	183