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Using data from the National Child Care Survey, 1990 and its low-income supplement, this report examines the care arrangements of 12 million children under age 13 in 6 million families with annual incomes below $15,000. Three fundamental issues are explored: (1) how low-income children are regularly cared for; (2) how much low-income fami [...]

Chronicles the design, implementation, and outcomes of the legal provisions of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. Draws on two types of data: interviews with those responsible for program implementation (representatives of the relevant public and private agencies at the federal, state, and local levels) and firsthand observation [...]

Married women and mothers working outside the home, divorce, and single-parent households have become part of American society for a variety of economic and cultural reasons, and government policy is unlikely to alter these features. Government should therefore be directed toward easing immediate problems by, for example, providing child [...]

Married women and mothers working outside the home, divorce, and single-parent households have become part of American society for a variety of economic and cultural reasons, and government policy is unlikely to alter these features. Government should therefore be directed toward easing immediate problems by, for example, providing child [...]

Drawing on original research, noted experts on child support analyze the extent to which new child support enforcement laws are being implemented; the benefits and costs of different kinds of proposed guaranteed minimum child support benefits; and the relationship between child support payments and child well-being, including educational [...]