Summary Of Flat Broke With Children By Sharon Hays

Flat Broke with children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform is a book that talks about the person struggles of women in the welfare system. The author Sharon Hays, she is a professor in the Department of Sociology and at the University of Virginia. She wrote different books including, Inside Welfare: Gender, Family Values, and the Work Ethic, the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, and, The Changing Face of Fifty: Women at the Halfway Point. I chose his book because of the title, I felt like she would really get into the struggles of being a single mother on welfare. She did interview two families but it was one of those situation where she talked more on her opinion than the families at hand. The two towns she did the interview was “Sunbelt City” a
I just really admired how she took three ears out of her own life to gather p the information needed in order to publish this book. Furthermore, I think it was a good book and I would recommend it to people to read to learn about other people’s opinion when it comes to social welfare.
In regards to social welfare, this book helps you understand how its services can and cannot be useful to single mothers. Social welfare is considered as the nation’s system of programs, benefits, and services that help people meet those social, economic, educational, and health needs that are fundamental to the maintenance of society. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is considered a welfare service that most mothers receive, it is for low income families with children, and mainly are short allowances. Before TANF was adopted another service was offered which was called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) which was vetoed by President Clinton after the passing of the Person Responsibility and Work