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Direct linkGraefe, Deborah Roempke; Lichter, Daniel T. – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
The promotion of marriage and two-parent families as a strategy to reduce welfare dependency continues to be a major public policy goal of the 1996 welfare reform. Based on the assumption that women will marry employed men and that their earnings will lift poor mothers and their children from public dependency, this objective raises important…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Unwed Mothers, Public Policy, Females
