Rights and wrongs of welfare reform: A feminist approach

How do feminists frame a critique of welfare reform that supports women's e fforts to achieve economic independence without embracing the oppressive na ture of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act ? By taking a human rights perspective, this article asserts that the succe ss of any welfare program should be evaluated by whether it achieves its fu ndamental goal of allowing single mothers to keep their children and provid e for them adequately. Both income and work ave only means toward this end and are judged according to how well they achieve it.