Family Caps, Abortion and Women of Color
Family Caps, Abortion and Women of Color
Oxford University Press, USA | August 22, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0195179056 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
Oxford University Press, USA | August 22, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0195179056 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
Fifteen years ago, New Jersey became the first of over twenty states to introduce the family cap, a welfare reform policy that reduces or eliminates cash benefits for unmarried women on public assistance who become pregnant. The caps have lowered extra-marital birth rates, as intended but as Michael J. Camasso shows convincingly in this provocative book, they did so in a manner that few of the policys architects are willing to acknowledge publicly, namely by increasing the abortion rate disproportionately among black and Hispanic women.