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Download full textFitchen, Janet M. – Community Development: Research Briefs & Case Studies, 1995
Many proposals for welfare reform center on the issue of marriage-based families versus single-parent families and oversimplify the relationship between single-parenting and poverty. Research done in upstate rural New York among low-income families showed that personal and economic characteristics of married and single mothers were similar as to…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility
