"Welfare mothers" welcome reform, urge compassion

Family Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 197-206

  Seccombe, Karen ^a   Battle Walters, Kimberly ^b   James, Delores ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

AFDC; Poverty; TANF; Welfare; Welfare reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039848840     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/585084     Document Type: Article

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