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Children, Youth, & Families

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Adoption Dynamics: Comparative Results for Subpopulations

Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption Adoption Dynamics: Comparative Results for Subpopulations by Fred H. Wulczyn Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago November 2002

Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs: Final Report - Volume Two

Submitted to:Department of Health and Human ServicesAssistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: Westat Chapin Hall Center for Children James Bell Associates

State Policies to Promote Marriage

I. Project Background and Goals The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) authorized the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. PRWORA stated four broad goals for TANF:

Study of Fathers’ Involvement in Permanency Planning and Child Welfare Casework

Prepared under contract to ASPE, with funding from ACF by: Freya Sonenstein, Karin Malm, and Amy Billing The Urban Institute

Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)

Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act by Fred H. Wulczyn Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago August, 2002

Married and Unmarried Parenthood and Economic Well-Being: A Dynamic Analysis of a Recent Cohort

This paper adds a longitudinal perspective to the analysis of marriage and economic well-being and uses several techniques to control for the selectivity into marriage.

Assessing the Family Circumstances of Current and Former TANF Child-Only Cases in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties: Executive Summary

  by: Charles J. Lieberman, Vanessa Lindler, and Margaret OBrien-Strain Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: The SPHERE Institute

Impacts of Marital Status and Parental Presence on the Material Hardships of Families with Children

This paper examines the types of union formation among families and their relationship to well-being.