For Better and for Worse

by Duncan, Greg J.; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay

• ISBN13: 9780871542458
• ISBN10: 0871542455
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
PART I INTRODUCTION AND POLICY CONTEXT
For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and The Well-Being of Children and Families	3	(6)
Greg J. Duncan
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Liberal and Conservative Influences on the Welfare Reform Legislation of 1996	9	(28)
Ron Haskins
PART II WHAT STATES ARE THINKING AND DOING
Welfare Reform, Management Systems, and Policy Theories of Child Well-Being	37	(16)
Cathy M. Johnson
Thomas L. Gais
How Do State Policymakers Think About Family Processes and Child Development in Low-Income Families?	53	(10)
Kristin Anderson Moore
Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution	63	(18)
Alan Weil
Sanctions and Exits: What States Know About Families That Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and the Time Limits	81	(22)
Jack Tweedie
PART III HOW FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ARE FARING
How Different Are Welfare and Working Families? And Do These Differences Matter for Children's Achievement?	103	(29)
Greg J. Duncan
Rachel E. Dunifon
Morgan B. Ward Doran
W. Jean Yeung
My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-Tanf Views of Work-Family Trade-Offs and Marriage	132	(22)
Ellen K. Scott
Kathryn Edin
Andrew S. London
Joan Maya Mazelis
Does Maternal Employment Mandated by Welfare Reform Affect Children's Behavior?	154	(25)
Ariel Kalil
Rachel E. Dunifon
Sandra K. Danziger
Lessons From New Hope: The Impact on Children's Well-Being of a Work-Based Antipoverty Program for Parents	179	(22)
Rashmita S. Mistry
Danielle A. Crosby
Aletha C. Huston
David M. Casey
Marika N. Ripke
How Families View and Use Lump-Sum Payments From The Earned Income Tax Credit	201	(21)
Jennifer L. Romich
Thomas S. Weisner
Welfare Waivers and Nonmarital Childbearing	222	(25)
Ann E. Horvath-Rose
H. Elizabeth Peters
PART IV POLICY APPROACHES AND OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Reducing Child Poverty by Improving the Work-Based Safety Net	247	(17)
Wendell Primus
Kristina Daugirdas
Effects of Welfare Reform at Four Years	264	(26)
Ron Haskins
Reforming the Social Family Contract: Public Support for Child Rearing in the United States	290	(17)
Paula England
Nancy Folbre
Lessons Learned	307	(16)
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Greg J. Duncan
Index	323