Successfully enforcing child support can shorten a family's need for cash assistance benefits by an estimated 6 months.
Welfare discourages work and undermines the work ethic.
More than half of all Kansas AFDC and food stamp recipients are children. Most adults who receive TAF benefits are single parents who face multiple barriers to employment such as a disability or lack of education, experience, transportation and child care. Most people who receive cash assistance do so for short spells, stopping when they find work, marry or otherwise become ineligible. Seventy percent of cash mothers receiving cash assistance participate in the labor force, according to a 1995 Institute for Women's Policy Research study. The average Kansas family consists of three family members, usually a single mother and two children.