Citation

Collins ME. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2000; 70(1): 135-140.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, Boston University, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10702858

Abstract

To assess early effects of welfare reform, administrative data was used to compare prereform and postreform cohorts of teenage parents regarding the impact of reform on welfare enrollments, case closures, child maltreatment, and subsequent births. The relation of mandated living arrangements to outcomes was also examined. Cohort differences were observed in enrollments and reasons for closure, but not in maltreatment or birth rates. Living arrangements were found to be associated with case closure.

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