Family Caps, Abortion and Women of Color

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Family Caps, Abortion and Women of Color is written by Michael Camasso and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190292504 (ISBN 10) and 9780190292508 (ISBN 13).

This provocative and exhaustively researched book explores an unexpected consequence of the welfare reform legislation: an increase, most notably among African-American women, in the abortion rate as an attempt to avoid penalties imposed by family cap laws. Michael Camasso, the principal investigator on New Jerseys independent evaluation of the caps impact on births, abortions, and contraceptive use (the only such investigation commissioned in the nation), offers the reader a chronicle of not only the empirical results of the legislation, but of the ensuing political firestorm.