Escape from Poverty Hardback: What Makes a Difference for Children? - Hardcover

Chase-Lansdale; Brooks-Gunn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521445213 ISBN 13: 9780521445214

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Escape from Poverty addresses the alarming, recent increase of child poverty within the USA, by examining implications for the impoverished young and calling for specific modes of change in maternal employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care.

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'A great deal of attention is given to evaluation of available relevant research and showing the implications as well as the limitations of such research and explicitly pointing out issues in need of further scientific investigation.' Paul Mussen, University of California, Los Angeles

Contraportada:

The poverty rate for children in the United States exceeds that of all other Western, industrialized nations except Australia. Moreover, poverty among children has increased substantially since 1970, affecting more than one-fifth of U.S. children. These persistent high rates require new ideas in both research and public policy. This volume presents such ideas. Four arenas of possible change are addressed: mothers' employment, child care, fathers' involvement, and access to health care. These four types of change have each been brought under the umbrella of the Family Support Act of 1988, after several years of debate over welfare reform. The goal of this landmark legislation is to enable poor families to escape poverty by requiring education, employment training opportunities for mothers, and improving child support by noncustodial fathers. Escape from Poverty is designed to examine the implications of these new policy-driven changes for children. The editors have developed an interdisciplinary perspective, involving demographers, developmental psychologists, economists, health experts, historians, and sociologists - a framework essential for addressing the complexities inherent in the links between the lives of poor adults and children in our society. This book will appeal to both researchers and policy makers.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521445213
• ISBN 13: 9780521445214
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344