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PAPERBACK price:$15.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles New Findings on Welfare and Children's Development:Summary of a Research Briefing New Findings on Children, Families, and Economic Self-Sufficiency:Summary of a Research Briefing Other Related Titles New Findings on Welfare and Children's Development: Summary of a Research Briefing (1997) Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (CBASSE) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Welfare reform is taking place across the United States." New Findings on Welfare and Children's Development: Summary of a Research Briefing. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997. Please select a format: Page 1   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Welfare reform is taking place across the United States. Driven by rising costs and caseloads, changes in the make-up of families receiving benefits, and revised expectations regarding work effort among the poor, income support policies for families in poverty are undergoing sweeping changes. The centerpiece of these policies—the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program—was established in 1935 to ensure that major losses in family income, then due primarily to death or disablement of the father, did not leave children destitute. The basic strategy of guaranteeing benefits to eligible poor American families has changed from one that was originally designed to enable single mothers to stay home with their children to one that requires those mothers to work. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (Title I: Block Grants for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), the major change at the federal level, replaces the entitlement status of AFDC with an annual lump-sum payment to the states and a maximum five-year time limit on benefits. At the same time, the majority of states are also redesigning the basic provisions of their AFDC programs that govern who receives benefits, under what conditions, and for how long. The immediate goal of most state reforms is to move families from welfare to jobs, and hence, to reduce AFDC costs. However, the long-term effectiveness of these efforts depends, in part, on ending intergenerational poverty and welfare dependency. To achieve this goal requires advancing understanding of the effects of welfare and welfare reforms on children's development. In April 1996 the Board on Children, Youth, and Families (of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine) and the Family and Child Well-Being Research Network (of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) convened their second annual research briefing on welfare and children's development. The briefing had three objectives: to create a venue for a productive exchange between researchers and policy makers who are working on issues of child development and welfare; to maximize the usefulness of research in helping decision makers "learn as we go" during the current phase of experimentation in welfare reform; and to encourage more assessments of children's development and family processes in efforts to track and evaluate welfare reform at all levels of government. Most of the research presented at the workshop addressed the question of how children and youth are affected by growing up in families that receive welfare benefits, primarily AFDC.1 1    The definitions of welfare varied in the research presented—from receipt to a host of means-tested assistance programs (e.g., food stamps); generally, it did not include medical assistance. Page 1 Front Matter (R1-R2) Welfare reform is taking place across the United States (1-1) Possible Effects of Welfare (2-3) How the Effects of Welfare Have Been Studied (4-6) What Role Does Welfare Receipt Play in Children's Development (7-10) When and for Whom Does Welfare Have Long-Term Impacts (11-16) How Do Children Fare When Their Mothers Combine Work With Welfare Receipt (17-20) Lessons From the States (21-22) References and Bibliography (23-30)

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New Findings on Welfare and Children's Development: Summary of a Research Briefing Welfare reform is taking place across the United States. Driven by rising costs and caseloads, changes in the make-up of families receiving benefits, and revised expectations regarding work effort among the poor, income support policies for families in poverty are undergoing sweeping changes. The centerpiece of these policies—the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program—was established in 1935 to ensure that major losses in family income, then due primarily to death or disablement of the father, did not leave children destitute. The basic strategy of guaranteeing benefits to eligible poor American families has changed from one that was originally designed to enable single mothers to stay home with their children to one that requires those mothers to work. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (Title I: Block Grants for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), the major change at the federal level, replaces the entitlement status of AFDC with an annual lump-sum payment to the states and a maximum five-year time limit on benefits. At the same time, the majority of states are also redesigning the basic provisions of their AFDC programs that govern who receives benefits, under what conditions, and for how long. The immediate goal of most state reforms is to move families from welfare to jobs, and hence, to reduce AFDC costs. However, the long-term effectiveness of these efforts depends, in part, on ending intergenerational poverty and welfare dependency. To achieve this goal requires advancing understanding of the effects of welfare and welfare reforms on children's development. In April 1996 the Board on Children, Youth, and Families (of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine) and the Family and Child Well-Being Research Network (of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) convened their second annual research briefing on welfare and children's development. The briefing had three objectives: to create a venue for a productive exchange between researchers and policy makers who are working on issues of child development and welfare; to maximize the usefulness of research in helping decision makers "learn as we go" during the current phase of experimentation in welfare reform; and to encourage more assessments of children's development and family processes in efforts to track and evaluate welfare reform at all levels of government. Most of the research presented at the workshop addressed the question of how children and youth are affected by growing up in families that receive welfare benefits, primarily AFDC.1 1    The definitions of welfare varied in the research presented—from receipt to a host of means-tested assistance programs (e.g., food stamps); generally, it did not include medical assistance.

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