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August 2004
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Child Characteristics Affect How Children Fare in Families
Receiving and Leaving Welfare?
Previous
research using the 1999 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF)
found few differences in developmental risk between children in
families who were currently receiving welfare and those in
families that had formerly received welfare. This paper reports
on new NSAF analyses revealing a pattern in which male adolescents
in the families of former recipients may be faring worse than
their counterparts in the families of current recipients. We also
find that family income, family structure, parental employment,
and symptoms of poor parent mental health differed by welfare
receipt status and, for income, by gender as well, for adolescents
in 1999. Yet, these differences in family characteristics did not
account for the elevated levels of developmental risk found among
adolescent boys in former recipient families.
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