Escape from Poverty
What Makes a Difference for Children?
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn editor P Lindsay Chase-Lansdale editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:28th Oct '97
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Escape from Poverty addresses the recent increase of child poverty within the USA and suggests specific modes of change.
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.The poverty rate for children in the United States exceeds that of all other Western, industrialised nations except Australia. Moreover, poverty among children has increased substantially since 1970, affecting more than one-fifth of US children. These persistent high rates require new ideas in both research and public policy. Escape from Poverty presents such ideas. Four modes of possible change are addressed: mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care. It examines 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.
'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
ISBN: 9780521629850
Dimensions: 227mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 480g
342 pages