Plunging caseloads and soaring employment among single mothers lead many to judge welfare reform a stunning success. Lost in the caseload counts and political rhetoric is the subject of our chapter: welfare reform and children. We sort through conflicting theory and evidence regarding the impacts of welfare reform on children’s well-being and development. A brief examination of recent trends in...

Previous research suggests that undermining of attention performance might be one decisive underlying mechanism in the link between marital conflict and children's academic maladjustment, but little is known about specific risk patterns in this regard. This study examines, in an experimental approach, the role of children's history of interparental discord and skin conductance level reactivity ...

Addressing a gap in process-oriented understanding of relations between marital conflict and children’s adjustment, propositions of the emotional security hypothesis from a family-wide perspective were tested in a longitudinal research design. Participants were 181 families and their 11–12 year-old-child (115 boys, 76 girls) living in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Relations between marital conf...

results two hundred and ninety-nine respondents completed the leisure time and marital conflict questionnaires. five major leisure patterns were identified accounting for 60.3% of the variance in data. the most dominant pattern was family-oriented activities (e.g. spending time with family outdoors and spending time with family indoors) and was negatively linked to marital conflict (standardize...

The territorial boundary conflict between West Lombok and Central districts in Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province has been going on for several years, with various attempts being made to find an appropriate solution. This study aims analyze the synergies carried out by Provincial Government of NTB handling conflicts. research method used is a case in-depth interviews informants involved results show ...