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Responsible Fatherhood and Welfare
How States Can Use the New Law to Help Children

Author: Stanley Bernard
Publication Date: January 1998
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Most state and local policy efforts resulting from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) focused on the adult recipients of cash assistance and their transition to employment. But two-thirds of recipients of cash assistance are not adults. The series Children and Welfare Reform explores what is needed to ensure that welfare reform helps and does not hurt children.

This installment of the series expands on the issues related to welfare changes by examining ways states can encourage responsible fatherhood while implementing their welfare programs.

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