Арканзасские Защитники Детей и Семей: Защита интересов и адвокация социальных изменений.

U. S. nonprofit organization

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is a non profit advocacy organization which encourages public policy in Arkansas that will benefit children and their families. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families was founded in 1977 by attorney Hillary Rodham as a non partisan 501(c)(3) group and continues to be supported by a wide variety of individuals and organizations.

In 1992 Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker wanted to end its policy of increasing Aid to Families with Dependent Children payments for additional children born into families on welfare. Governor Tucker said that the proposed policy would encourage women on welfare to use state provided birth control rather than conceive and it would save the state of Arkansas one million dollars per year. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families opposed the proposed policy, saying it would do nothing beneficial, and it would send more juveniles into the overburdened adult judicial system. Prosecutors were in favor of the bill saying it was necessary for police at crime scenes to question children who might be witnesses or suspects. The group said that just six percent of eligible children participate in the summer lunch program, a rate much lower than any other state. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families described Arkansas state income taxes as too high in 2000. The group said that Arkansas state income tax was regressive and put too large a burden on families with lower incomes. The group advocated for a zero percent income tax rate for families with low incomes, refundable earned income tax credit for low income families, and elimination of the state sales tax on groceries.