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Carol Stack, professor of social and cultural
studies at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the human
costs of welfare reform and the effects of moving low-income families
from welfare to work.
Professor Stack analyzes the role and limits
of "kin care"—in which children, aunts, parents, grandparents,
and other family members take on the role of child care—in welfare
reform programs.
Kin care, says Stack, while keeping money and scarce resources within
family networks, was not meant to serve the intensive needs of mothers
with long working hours, nor does it typically enrich their kids'
learning and social needs. |
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