Family
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Informal Kinship Care Most Common Out-of-Home Placement After an Investigation of Child Maltreatment This fact sheet examines differences between urban and rural areas in foster care placement with informal kin caregivers. The data for this analysis come from a national sample of children who had a maltreatment report that resulted in an investigation: the second… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Family, Health |
| Recent Data Show Continued Growth in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Use This brief uses data from the American Community Survey to examine rates of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) receipt in 2011, with particular attention to changes since the onset of the recession, and to receipt by family composition, region, and… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Family, Food Assistance, Poverty, Safety Net |
| Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners This brief, Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners, investigates the increased role employed wives played in family economic stability prior to, during, and in the two years after the Great Recession, and makes comparisons to the 1990-1991 and 2001… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Family, Gender, Income |
| Who Cares for the Sick Kids? Parents’ Access to Paid Time to Care for a Sick Child This brief analyzes employed parents’ access to five or more paid sick days annually to care for a sick child in 2008.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Family, Health, Income, Wages |
| Coös County Teens’ Family Relationships This fact sheet examines Coös County, New Hampshire teens’ perceptions of their family relationship experiences using data from the Coös Youth Study collected in 2011 from 418 eleventh graders in all Coös County public schools. Authors Corinna Jenkins Tucker and… |
New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Family, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Coös Teens’ View of Family Economic Stress Is Tied to Quality of Relationships at Home Family economic hardship during adolescence affects family relationships and the social, emotional, and behavioral development of a substantial number of American youth.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Family, New Hampshire, Wages, Young Adults |
| TANF in Rural America: Informing Re-authorization In 1996 welfare reform ushered in a new era in which cash assistance for poor parents became both temporary and conditional on activities to promote economic independence through work. Cash assistance from TANF relieves, but does not eliminate, poverty because… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Family, Poverty, Rural, Safety Net |
| Rural Workers Have Less Access to Paid Sick Days This brief, using data from the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW) survey, analyzes paid sick time rates of workers by place and type of work. Paid sick days provide job protection to workers and a steady paycheck when they need to care for… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Family, Health, Rural |
| Long-Term Foster Care—Different Needs, Different Outcomes This brief examines where foster children are living four years after removal from their homes and the characteristics of these children and their placements. Understanding whether child characteristics such as age or emotional or behavioral problems are associated… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Children, Family, Safety Net |
| Household Reports of Energy Assistance Receipt Increased 48 Percent During Recession: Proposed Cuts Threaten Vulnerable Families This brief examines heating assistance usage and the implications of President Obama's 2012 budget proposal to cut $2.5 billion from the $5.1 billion energy assistance fund for low-income families at a time when families are struggling with higher energy costs… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Family, Housing, Poverty, Safety Net |
