Child Support Enforcement: The Federal Role : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, July 20, 1994

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Page 1 - US SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON FEDERAL SERVICES, POST OFFICE, AND CIVIL SERVICE, COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, Washington, DC. The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:05 am, in room SD-342, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon.
Page 18 - ... improve Federal program effectiveness and public accountability by promoting a new focus on results, service quality, and customer satisfaction...
Page 47 - House, this committee has become concerned about the continued growth in the number of families receiving aid to families with dependent children (AFDC). In the...
Page 22 - Realizing how the time of the committee is limited, the statements will be limited to 1 minute each. And I want to express my appreciation to you, Mr. Chairman, and to the committee, for giving our young citizens an opportunity to testify on this matter of grave importance and urgency in our community. The first witness is John Coventry. Mr.
Page 67 - ... work force as quickly as possible. Support, job training, and child care will be provided to help people move from dependence to independence. Time limits will ensure that anyone who can work, must work — in the private sector if possible, in a temporary subsidized job if necessary. This legislation includes several provisions aimed at creating a new culture of mutual responsibility. It includes provisions to promote parental responsibility and ensure that both parents contribute to their children's...
Page 1 - ... children born out of wedlock, where there was no marriage, is going up dramatically. The rate of illegitimacy has literally quadrupled since Daniel Patrick Moynihan, now a Senator from New York, first called it to our attention 30 years ago. At the rate we're going, unless we reverse it, within 10 years more than half of our children will be born in homes where there has never been a marriage.
Page 10 - One of the most Important things we need to do Is to look at the universe of need.
Page 49 - ACF combines the programs and resources of the Family Support Administration, the Office of Human Development Services, and the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant from the Public Health Service.
Page 70 - ... Simpson's good-guy public image have masked a more violent personality, one capable of murder? Not all developments receive such intensive news coverage. Between 1983 and 1993, the birthrate among unwed women rose by more than 70 percent. According to US Census Bureau statistics, 6.3 million children (27 percent of all children under the age of 18) lived in 1993 with a single parent who had never married, an increase from 3.7 million in 1983. Most of these families are mired in poverty (the average...
Page 65 - With the passage of the Child Support Amendments of 1984 and the Family Support Act of 1988, the means for addressing this problem are being put into place.

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