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Shiffman, Catherine Dunn – Educational Policy, 2013
This article examines how parents supported their children's education while transitioning from welfare to work. Interviews with parents, elementary school educators, and staff at a community-based organization were conducted in an urban Tennessee community. Navigating work and parenting responsibilities was particularly challenging when children…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Welfare Services, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Roff, Jennifer – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
Qualitative research has documented strategic behavior in response to child support policy. Parents of children on welfare have an incentive to avoid formal child support, since most states limit the amount of formal child support that women on welfare can receive (the "disregard") and have relatively high child support orders for low-income…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Parents, Low Income, Welfare Recipients
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De Civita, Mirella; Pagani, Linda S.; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2007
We examined the influence of income source within the context of persistent poverty on children's disruptive classroom behavior at age 12 and whether these associations were mediated by maternal supervision at ages 10 and 11. Using a subsample (N = 1,112) from the Quebec Longitudinal Study, we coded four economic circumstances indicating…
Descriptors: Children, Mothers, Child Rearing, Behavior Problems
Mezey, Jennifer – Center for Law and Social Policy CLASP, 2004
Child care subsidies help low-income families work and leave welfare, but funding shortfalls are forcing states to enact restrictive policies that are hurting poor families and efforts to promote their employment and earnings. The Administration?s recently proposed FY 2005 budget would make this situation even worse, causing 447,000 children…
Descriptors: Employment, Welfare Recipients, Mothers, Low Income Groups
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Slack, Kristen Shook; Holl, Jane L.; Lee, Bong Joo; McDaniel, Marla; Altenbernd, Lisa; Stevens, Amy Bush – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
Recent changes in welfare policy have produced changes in parental work and welfare receipt. These factors are assessed in relation to investigated reports of child abuse and neglect using survey data on 1998 welfare recipients in nine Illinois counties, in conjunction with longitudinal administrative data on cash welfare benefits, employment, and…
Descriptors: Employment, Counties, Child Abuse, Welfare Services
Kim, Tack-Ho; Lee, Sang Min; Yu, Kumlan; Lee, Seungkook; Puig, Ana – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2005
This study aimed to identify the significant protective factors that are likely to facilitate the development of Korean adolescents' resilience. The participants were 2,677 students in Korea, among whom 442 were receiving support from social welfare agencies. The results of hierarchical regression analysis show that the school adaptation variance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Personality Traits