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Download full textMorris, Pamela A. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2002
Over the past 30 years, welfare and other public policies for families living in poverty have developed a primary objective of increasing parents' self-sufficiency by requiring and supporting employment, culminating in the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). This legislation gave states considerable…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Public Policy, Children, Employed Parents
