Testimony on state implementation of work requirements and time limitsbefore the House Committee on Ways and Means.

The rising proportion of women who bear and raise children out of wedlock has greatly weakened the American family system.

Clearly, the crisis of the family is not just a "black thing." In practically all of today's rich, free societies, the family is in trouble.

Men and women differ, and a strong culture must be designed and maintained that will keep them together in achieving what most want and what most, when they get it, cherish. Their own child.

The authors analyzes the participation requirements in the House and Senate bills to reauthorizethe Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programand state responses.

In America and the West Indies, slavery created more barriers for any father hoping to play such a parental role.

The poor in America are far more likely to be at risk of death and disease because of overeating than starvation.

The District of Columbia may thus offer a glimpse of the sorts of infant health problems that the nation as a whole will know in the years to come.