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                     Wade F. Horn, Ph.D.
               National Fatherhood Initiative


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                           Poverty

     "All our institutions, particularly government,
     must reexamine the ways in which they affect
     families...WeÕve passed programs in housing that
     have helped destroy neighborhoods. WeÕve enacted
     tax policies that discriminate against families of
     average and lower income. And weÕve done most of
     this in a mindless way, not deliberately, but
     often unconsciously. All of us in public life must
     begin to examine the effect of proposed and
     existing laws and programs on family life."

          Former Vice-President Walter Mondale, 1977.

     "Child poverty rates today would be one-third lower if
     family structure had not changed so dramatically since
     1960. Fifty-one percent of the increase in child
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