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Dual Involvement of Illinois Families in TANF and the Child Welfare System: Parents' Perceptions and Experiences
Morgan B. Ward Doran and Dorothy E. Roberts

This paper presents the findings from a study of families who both received welfare and experienced involvement with the child welfare system – so-called “dual-system families” (Geen et al., 2001). The investigators conducted in-depth, face-to-face interviews with a subset of sixteen dual-system parents drawn from the larger pool of families participating in the Illinois Families Study (IFS) with a goal of examining the experiences of the families in the IFS who both receive TANF and are involved in the Illinois child welfare system.