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What Role Does Welfare Receipt Play in Children's Development
Pages 7-10

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... Some also believe that welfare receipt affects noneconomic facets of family functioning, such as marriage, timing of childbearing, and the consistency and warmth of parenting in ways that expose children to potentially harmful circumstances. Research has acicTressed these issues by attempting to clisentangle the influence of welfare receipt from that of poverty ancT other factors that characterize families that receive AFDC.
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From page 9...
... The factors included were the chitcl's age, sex, and birth order and the mother's marital, fertility, ancT work histories, educational attainment, and score on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test. When length of time spent in poverty and depth of poverty and a variety of contextual factors (such as local rates of unemploy 9
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... welfare have math scores 6.7 points lower, on aver' age, than white chiictren whose families have never received welfare; after control' ling for demographic and background factors, the difference is reduced to 2.~ points. These finclings can be interpreted as provicIing evidence that welfare receipt adversely affects chiT3ren's cleveTopment.
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  • black children
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