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Barriers to lone parents' employment: Looking beyond the obvious
Speak, Suzanne, 2000
Local Economy, 15(1), 32-44

A discussion of the role of neighborhood disadvantage and policies to increase access to child care and training in the transition to employment among single parents on welfare

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The decline of cash welfare and implications for social policy and poverty
Danziger, Sandra K., 2010
Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 523-545

An overview of trends in welfare program participation, unemployment, and poverty among single-mother families, the decline of cash welfare, and the rise of child care subsidies, with a discussion of the possible influence of the 1996 welfare reform on child outcomes and well being

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Does child care assistance matter?: The effects of welfare and employment programs on child care for very young children
Gennetian, Lisa A., 2001
(The Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 2). New York: MDRC.

An analysis of the effects of child care assistance on infant toddler child care use by low-income single-parent families, using data from five experimental evaluation studies of welfare and employment programs

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The economic value of grandparent assistance
Bass, Scott A., 1996
Generations, 20(1), 29-33

A discussion of the role that grandparents play in child care and the economic value of their assistance.

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Grandmothers raising grandchildren: Family well-being and economic assistance
Park, Hwa-Ok, 2005
Focus, 24(1), 19-27

A study of the economic well-being of families headed by grandmothers, including their sources and level of family income- for instance the role of targeted income transfers targeted to reduce poverty for low income families- and the correlation between the type of grandmother-headed family and the likelihood of receiving income support

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Grandparents' views on child care
Goodfellow, Joy, 2006
Every Child, 12(1), 8-9

A summary of Australian grandparents' views on informal and formal child care, drawn from a sample of grandparents who act as primary caregivers for their grandchildren on a regular basis

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Mother-child interaction, language development and the school performance of poverty children
Farran, Dale, 1982
In L. Feagans & D. Farran (Eds.), The language of children reared in poverty: Implications for evaluation and intervention(pp. 19-52). New York: Academic Press

A study concerning family patterns during preschool and their effects on language development and the later school performance of children reared in poverty

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