Lives on the Line - Shirk, Martha; Bennett, Neil G; Aber, J Lawrence
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Melding sophisticated demographic analysis with affecting personal profiles, this book paints a vivid picture of life as it is lived by the more than thirteen million American children growing up below the poverty line. It shatters many commonly held stereotypes by showing, through analysis of census data, just which American children are most likely to be poor, and by taking readers down the paths that lead families into poverty -- paths too often littered with childhood abuse, parental loss, long-term battering by a spouse, teen pregnancy, and drug abuse.

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Melding sophisticated demographic analysis with affecting personal profiles, this book paints a vivid picture of life as it is lived by the more than thirteen million American children growing up below the poverty line. It shatters many commonly held stereotypes by showing, through analysis of census data, just which American children are most likely to be poor, and by taking readers down the paths that lead families into poverty -- paths too often littered with childhood abuse, parental loss, long-term battering by a spouse, teen pregnancy, and drug abuse.
Autorenporträt
Martha Shirk, a journalist who specializes in social issues, is co-author of Lives on the Line. She lives in Palo Alto, California. Neil G. Bennett is director of demographic research for the National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. J. Lawrenece Aber is director of the National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.