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A 5 page paper that studies the impact of welfare reform on single mother's collecting Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). This paper focuses on the inherent problems within the AFDC system that related directly to women's un-wed status, along with current misconceptions regarding participant status, education and ability to transition from the program into work. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: D0_Womenwel.rtf
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Over the past three decades, the welfare system has shifted from serving the needs of widows and their children to providing for vast numbers of young, single mothers. In
light of this transition, it is important to look at the role the AFDC program plays in promoting the division of parents, while also considering the impact that the social
stigma welfare carries has on the ability of mothers to get off the move towards self-sufficiency. AFDC provides cash assistance for single parents (mothers) with children with at least one
child under the age of 18. Created by the Social Security Act of 1935 to assist widows the program had limited appeal. By 1969, increased divorce rates caused
divorced mothers to become the primary users of the AFDC program, while also providing for a small population of single mothers who were never married (London). Over the last
30 years, the focus of the program has shifted once again to focus its primary responsibilities towards single, un-wed mothers and their children. There are two discernible groups
of unwed mothers who collect welfare payments: divorced mothers and mothers who never married. Beharov and Sullivan reported that in 1994, 2/3 of the children on Aid to
Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) were the product of relationships that never culminated in marriage, while only 30 percent had separated or divorced parents. The other small amount accounts
for the percentage who are children of widows or the disabled (83). It is interesting to note this percentages while recognizing that the program began to provide for the
needs of widows and their children, and has become a service that provides for parents who were never married. There are few statistics that accurately reflect the entire
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