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Marriage & Family Issues

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State Policies to Promote Marriage. Preliminary Report.

Submitted to: Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: The Lewin Group Karen Gardiner, Mike Fishman Plamen Nikolov, Stephanie Laud

The Psychological Impact of Incarceration: Implications for Post-Prison Adjustment

This paper addresses the psychological impact of incarceration and its implications for post-prison freeworld adjustment.

A Woman's Journey Home: Challenges for Female Offenders and Their Children

From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities A Womans Journey Home: Challenges for Female Offenders and Their Children By: Stephanie S. Covington, PhD, LCSW Co-director, Center for Gender & Justice December 2001

Exploring the Needs and Risks of the Returning Prisoner Population

Much has and continues to be written and discussed on the topic of released prisoners.

Prisoners and Families: Parenting Issues During Incarceration

This paper provides an overview of family matters during incarceration as one means of informing public debate and actions in this emerging area of social policy and practice. The problems that families face when a parent is incarcerated and the strategies they use to manage those problems are described.

Incarceration, Reentry, and Social Capital: Social Networks in the Balance

Reentry may be thought of as a community-level process when it occurs in high concentrations. The concepts of social capital and collective efficacy have been used to explain the production and maintenance of disadvantage and its consequences.

The Antisocial Behavior of the Adolescent Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Developmental Perspective

By virtue of their developmental stage, it is the adolescents of incarcerated parents who have the potential to have the greatest impact on society at large, and in this paper, we focus on the most powerful problem that they can exhibit, antisocial behavior.

A Woman's Journey Home: The Effect of Incarcerat ion and Reentry on Children, Families and Communities

Over the past 25 years our knowledge and understanding of women's lives have increased dramatically. The new information has impacted and improved services for women in the fields of health, education, employment, mental health, substance abuse, and trauma treatment.

Nonresident Fathers: To What Extent Do They Have Access to Employment-Based Health Care Coverage?

As part of the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998, Congress established a medical child support working group to identify barriers to medical support enforcement and to recommend ways to address them. This report is an effort to provide greater background on one such barrier  the lack of access by many nonresident parents to employment-based health care coverage.

Characteristics of Families Using Title IV-D Services in 1995

CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES USING TITLE IV-D SERVICES IN 1995 By Matthew Lyon May 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Data Source and Methodology Findings