Foreword / Carlton E. Munson -- Class War and Welfare Reform / Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox Piven -- Work and the New Class War -- Welfare and the New Class War -- Reinforcing Work Norms and the New Class War -- Revisiting the Unseen: Some Unresolved Issues in Homeless Advocacy and Research / Kim Hopper -- The Limits of Special Pleading -- A Legacy of Disregard -- Conclusion: Queuing for Justice? -- The Crisis in American Child Welfare / David Fanshel -- How Children View Their Welfare Moms -- Denying Housing to Mothers with Newborns -- Cutting Off Income Support from Stressed-Out Parents -- Young Parents: Key Players in the War Against Crime -- Child Welfare Implications of the Transformation of the Welfare System -- Accountability: A Moral Imperative -- Unintended Consequences of Social Policy Changes -- Predicting a Major Rise in Young Women Seeking Abortions -- Inviting a Social Disaster -- From Poverty to Misery -- Mandatory versus Voluntary HIV Testing of Newborns / Nilsa S. Gutierrez -- HIV Principles of Care -- HIV and AIDS in New York Women and Children -- Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing -- Current HIV Policy -- The Changing Structure of African-American Families / Andrew Billingsley -- Family Structural Diversity -- Social-Class Diversity -- From the Tenement Class to the Dangerous Class to the Underclass: Blaming Women for Social Problems / Mimi Abramovitz -- Moral Contagion -- Genetic Transmission -- Psychological Internalization -- Cultural Dissemination -- Conclusion: What the Future Holds.