42 U.S.C. § 12351 : US Code - Section 12351: Findings and purpose

Search 42 U.S.C. § 12351 : US Code - Section 12351: Findings and purpose

(a) Findings
Congress finds that -
(1) fundamental changes in the demographics and economics of
family life in the United States over the past 20 years have had
a profound effect on children and their parents;
(2) since 1966, the number of women working outside the home
has increased by 92 percent and the number of two earner families
has increased by over 50 percent;
(3) 61 percent of the children born today will live in a single-
parent family before reaching the age of 20, with one out of
every three single female heads of households living on income
below the Federal poverty level;
(4) one out of every four children under the age of 6 in the
United States currently lives below the Federal poverty level;
(5) over the past 10 years, parents have increasingly come
together with other parents to organize family resource and
support programs that promote healthy child development and
increase parental competency, particularly families at risk; and
(6) Federal investment in promoting the development of family
resource and support programs will reap long-term benefits for
individual families and the nation as a whole.
(b) Purpose
It is the purpose of this part (!1) to -
(1) stimulate the development and expansion of family resource
and support programs that are prevention oriented;
(2) encourage early intervention of such programs with families
to ameliorate problem situations before such situations become
crises; and
(3) assist parents in enhancing their children's development to
ensure that their children enter school prepared and ready to
learn.