Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Broussard, C. Anne; Joseph, Alfred L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection addresses the context of poverty in the United States and focuses on poverty issues that family members must confront as they move through the life course.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135694982
• Artikelnr.: 42980936

Autorenporträt

C. Anne Broussard is a sociologist and Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of New Hampshire, USA. Alfred L. Joseph is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Studies and Social Work at Miami University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Poverty Context Cross-Sections of Oppression and
Poverty 2. "Greed is Good": The Idle Rich, The Working Poor and Personal
Responsibility 3. Women in a Bind: The Decline of Marriage, Market and the
State 4. Life After Welfare 5. The Dynamics of Poverty in Rural and Urban
Areas 6. Hispanic Families in Poverty: The Hidden Contribution of
Immigrants Poverty Across the Life Span: Change, Crisis and Resilience 7.
Family Poverty, Welfare Reform and Child Development 8. Childhood
Disability, Poverty and Family Life: A Complex Relationship 9. Foster Care
and Families Apart: Poverty, Placement and Potential 10. Poverty and
Educational 11. Going It Alone: Single Motherhood and Poverty 12. Old and
Poor: America's Hidden Problem Rethinking Family Poverty 13. Poverty,
Stress, Resilience: Using the MRM Model for Understanding and Abating
Poverty Related Family Stress 14. Poverty Policy and Ideology