Findings and purpose
Don't show this message again
(a) FindingsCongress 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;