Section 15-18-1 Legislative findings.

RI Gen L § 15-18-1 (2019) (N/A)
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§ 15-18-1. Legislative findings. The general assembly finds and declares that:

(1) An increasingly large percentage of children in this state live in single parent households;

(2) Almost one-half (1/2) of single parent households have income below the poverty level;

(3) In excess of forty thousand (40,000) children in the state are receiving state aid through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program;

(4) Children in families where parents are separated or divorced are at greater risk of economic deprivation than in two (2) parent families.

History of Section. (P.L. 1993, ch. 344, § 1.)