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[CITE: 42USC12351]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
   CHAPTER 127--COORDINATED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
 
SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT OF ADMINISTRATION AND AWARDING OF GRANTS FOR 
                                PROGRAMS
 
                     Part C--National Clearinghouse
 
Sec. 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--
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        (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.

(Pub. L. 101-501, title IX, Sec. 956, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1278.)

                       References in Text

    This part, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original ``this 
Act'', and was translated as reading ``this chapter'', meaning chapter 3 
(Secs. 955-960) of subtitle A of title IX of Pub. L. 101-501, known as 
the Family Resources Act, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
