Citation

Raphael J. Law Policy 1997; 19(2): 123-137.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, State University of New York at Buffalo, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1467-9930.00024

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Anecdotally, welfare-to-work programs have documented that domestic violence serves as a welfare-to-work barrier by partners' interference with education, training and work, or by physical or mental trauma which also prevents employment. Four new research studies, which, although using different methods, including random and nonrandom surveys of welfare caseloads and random neighborhood surveys, document high and remarkably consistent prevalence of domestic violence within welfare caseloads. Although much more needs to be known, the prevalence of domestic violence in these women's lives requires specific domestic violence-sensitive welfare policies lest women become injured during the welfare-to-work process.

Language: en