In Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform (Transaction Publishers, July 2003), AEI’s Douglas J. Besharov finds that welfare caseloads are down an amazing 60 percent since the beginning of welfare reform. Even in the weakened economy, caseloads have hardly risen. Are states wrongfully discouraging single mothers from seeking the benefits to which they are legally entitled? Has welfare been so stigmatized that even the very poor do not want to be on the rolls? Or, are single mothers somehow finding other sources of support not reflected in government statistics? And, does it matter, since there is little evidence of harm to low-income children and families?