---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch7/schIV/ptB/spt2"
level: "subpart"
label: "Subpart 2"
heading: "promoting safe and stable families"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch7-schIV-ptB-spt2"
sections_count: 12
---

# Subpart 2 — promoting safe and stable families

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 7 — Social Security › Subchapter IV — Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child-Welfare Services › Part B — Child and Family Services

## Sections

- [§629. Purpose](/usc/42/629.md)
- [§629a. Definitions](/usc/42/629a.md)
- [§629b. State plans](/usc/42/629b.md)
- [§629c. Allotments to States](/usc/42/629c.md)
- [§629d. Payments to States](/usc/42/629d.md)
- [§629e. Evaluations; research; technical assistance](/usc/42/629e.md)
- [§629f. Authorization of appropriations; reservation of certain amounts](/usc/42/629f.md)
- [§629g. Discretionary and targeted grants](/usc/42/629g.md)
- [§629h. Entitlement funding for State courts to assess and improve handling of proceedings relating to foster care and adoption](/usc/42/629h.md)
- [§629i. State partnership planning and demonstration grants to support meaningful relationships between foster children and the incarcerated parents of the children](/usc/42/629i.md)
- [§629k. Reduction of administrative burden](/usc/42/629k.md)
- [§629l. Public access to State plans](/usc/42/629l.md)