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Title: Disentangling the Dynamics of Family Poverty and Child Disability: Does Disability Come First?
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1. Porterfield, Shirley
Tracey, Colleen
Disentangling the Dynamics of Family Poverty and Child Disability: Does Disability Come First?
CSD Working Paper No. 03-01, Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University - St. Louis, March 2003.
Also: http://csd.wustl.edu/Publications/Documents/WP03-01.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Child Health; Children, Poverty; Disability; Divorce; Family Income; Poverty; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Welfare

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The passage of welfare reform in 1996 inexorably altered the relationship between the U.S. government and what are arguably its least able citizens. Not only were adults in families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) now required to begin working a stipulated number of hours per week, but the federal legislation made no accommodations for families whose children, due either to chronic illness or disability, required additional parental time and resources. The impact of federal welfare reform legislation on these families has been the subject of ongoing examination. This paper provides background for the analysis of such policy implications by analyzing the causal relationship between poverty and child disability. Despite a plethora of research on the general association between poverty and child disability, the direction of causation between these two factors remains unclear. We don't know whether children with disabilities are more likely to be born into families in poverty than children without disabilities. For many families, poverty may result from the birth of the disabled child rather than be a causal factor in the disability. In this paper we explore this proposition by following families backward in time in order to examine their characteristics before and after the birth of their children.
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Porterfield, Shirley and Colleen Tracey. "Disentangling the Dynamics of Family Poverty and Child Disability: Does Disability Come First?" CSD Working Paper No. 03-01, Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University - St. Louis, March 2003.