Annotated Bibliographies

Powell, Sharon E., and Jean W. Bauer. "Resource use of rural low-income families caring for children with disabilities." Journal of Children & Poverty 16.1 (2010): 67-83. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 4 Mar. 2011.
In this article the authors stress the imporatance of the Temporary Assisstance to Needy Families Program (TANF) and how it helped the low income families with disable children obtain help, get off welfare, and keep their jobs. For these families to finally have something that helps them with their disabled children without so many barriers was a great thing. Many of the low income would have to stop working and take care of their children because it was hard for them to find child care. With the new program TANF the parents are required to have a job in order to recieve help this way the family always has two forms of recieving money and hopefully will not be stuggeling to much. Another thing TANF provides is "A five-year lifetime limit for families receiving cash assistance". I chose this article due to the fact that it still goes with my essay topic but gives me more information and another aprroach to the question. Not only to I now have information on regular low income families but now I have information on low income families that have children with disabilities.



Press, Julie E., Jay Fagan, and Lynda Laughlin. "Taking Pressure Off Families: Child-Care Subsidies Lessen Mothers’ Work-Hour Problems." Journal of Marriage & Family 68.1 (2006): 155-171. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 4 Mar. 2011.
This article states why single mothers who recieve subsidies to help pay for child care are more likely to work with their employer to get the right hours or even work more than normal to help provide for the family than the ones that do not recieve subsidies. Mothers are able to set up two different time schedules with the subsidies so that the schedule fits exactly what they need and not just giving out random hours. Hours are set up by how bad off the family is, if the mother needs more hours she can sign up for more but if the mother only need partial hours she can sign up for that. What the authors are explaining is that when there is only one parent its hard to make ends meat and spend time with the kids and with subsidies it provides some setting for that to happen. This article relates to my topic because many lox income families normally have only one parent providing for the entire family.