Shields, Margie K., and Richard E. Behrman. "How Low-Income Children Are Faring: Analysis and Recommendations." Children and Welfare Reform Winter/Spring 2002 12.1 (2002). Print.
Shields and Behrman mention the positives of poverty and how its numbers are decreasing and that fewer children are in single parented homes. They discuss how welfare reforms are benefitting families and child poverty is dropping as well. But that though all of this good the children are still lacking in positive child development. This article talks about the amount of singled parent families in these low-income homes that raise children who are effected by all these factors. The topic is more focused on single parent low-income families rather than low-income families as a whole. I do not know anything about the authors, they do mention facts and numbers in their journals which help to convince me of the legitimacy of their subjects. The results and conclusions of this writing is that of "increased involvement of males in single-mother households might be positive indicator for child well-being- with three important caveats". They go on to mention the presence of fathers, no conflict/domestic violence, and the connection of the relationship whether it be marriage or not, how this effect the contact with the child in the end if they relationship fails.
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