Kaaryn S. Gustafson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814732311
- eISBN:
- 9780814733394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814732311.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law
This chapter describes some of the salient background characteristics and histories of thirty-four welfare recipients in a Northern California county. Based on in-depth, semistructured interviews ...
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This chapter describes some of the salient background characteristics and histories of thirty-four welfare recipients in a Northern California county. Based on in-depth, semistructured interviews with these individuals, the chapter highlights the ways that they may reflect the general welfare population and where it may differ. It also looks at some of the common experiences and backgrounds of the interviewees in terms of parenthood, substitute mothering, marital and nonmarital history, paternity and child support (for absent fathers), welfare use, the impact of race and ethnicity on welfare use, family history of welfare use, length of time on welfare, educational history, and employment history, Finally, the chapter considers some of the assumptions behind welfare's work requirements.Less
This chapter describes some of the salient background characteristics and histories of thirty-four welfare recipients in a Northern California county. Based on in-depth, semistructured interviews with these individuals, the chapter highlights the ways that they may reflect the general welfare population and where it may differ. It also looks at some of the common experiences and backgrounds of the interviewees in terms of parenthood, substitute mothering, marital and nonmarital history, paternity and child support (for absent fathers), welfare use, the impact of race and ethnicity on welfare use, family history of welfare use, length of time on welfare, educational history, and employment history, Finally, the chapter considers some of the assumptions behind welfare's work requirements.
