▪ Abstract Anthropological research on welfare restructuring differs from most poverty
research conducted by US policy analysts and many other social scientists by its situating …

The purpose of this article is to examine work–family conflict among low-income, unmarried
mothers. Analyzing the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national sample of …

Welfare reform and related policy changes have altered the context in which welfare‐reliant
women make choices about employment and family care. Using data from longitudinal …

The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
(PRWORA, PL 104-93) called primarily on women to achieve two goals: work and/or …

Abstract The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
(PRWORA) encouraged states to reduce welfare caseloads. Caseload reduction can be …

Welfare reformers sought to reduce “dependency,” or reliance on state‐supported cash
benefits and deployed a discourse of “self‐sufficiency” to promote the legitimacy of efforts to …

It has never been easy for contemporary parents in the United States to organize stable child
care while working, harder for single parents, and harder still for low-income families. Stable …

In this study, the concept of social capital is applied to an exploration of G uanxi (social
networking to create good relationships) among working lone mothers of adults with …

Researchers have made significant efforts to combine quantitative and qualitative methods
in welfare reform policy research in the United States. This paper draws on several …

Child care stability affects child and family outcomes. Stability reflects the time dimension of
a child care arrangement. Although stability does not guarantee positive outcomes …