Escape from Poverty: What Makes a Difference for Children?

by P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Overview

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 persistently high rates require new ideas in both research and public policy. Escape from Poverty presents such ideas. Contributors address four modes of possible change: mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care. It examines the implications of these new policy-driven changes for children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521629850
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/28/1997
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

1. Whose responsibility? An historical analysis of the changing role of mothers, fathers, and society P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Maris A. Vinovskis; 2. The life circumstances and development of children in welfare families Nicholas Zill, Kristin Moore, Ellen Wolpow Smith, Thomas Stief, and Mary Jo Coiro; 3. Welfare to work through the eyes of children Julie Boatright Wilson, David Ellwood and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; 4. Strategies for altering the outcomes of poor children and their families Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; 5. Policy issues of child care Andrew J. Cherlin; 6. Child care and children of color Margaret Beale Spencer, Janet Blumenthal and Elizabeth Richards; 7. Health policy in the Family Support Act of 1988 Katherine S. Lobach; 8. Economic issues of health care Barbara L. Wolfe; 9. Dealing with Dads: the changing roles of fathers Frank J. Furstenberg Jr; 10. The effects of child support reform on child well-being Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan; 11. Losing ground or moving ahead: welfare reform and children Ron Haskins; 12. National surveys as data resources for public policy research on poor children Nicholas Zill; 13. An interdisciplinary model for studying poor children Timothy M. Smeeding; 14. Two generation programs: a new intervention strategy and directions for future Sheila Smith.

Editorial Reviews

"While numerous long range studies are currently being implemented to track the fortunes of families on income support, it is vital that social workers and social service administrators use the available scientific knowledge to prevent more children from falling into poverty. It is in this regard that this book will be particularly useful...[T]here is much in the collection that will be of interest and value to those who are concerned with the pressing problem of child poverty today." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

"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, UCLA Professor Emeritus of Psychology

"...there is much in the collection that will be of interest and value to those who are concerned with the pressing problem of child poverty today." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

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