Handbook of Families and Poverty.
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: WHAT WELFARE CAN AND CANNOT DO; 1
- Innovation in Social Policy; 2
- Social Policy and Marriage; 3
- Working Families Should Not Be Poor; 4
- Who Will Care When Parents Can't?; Part II: POVERTY AMONG DIVERSE POPULATIONS AND SETTINGS; 5
- Understanding the Processes Through Which Economic Hardship Influences Families and Children; 6
- Early Childhood Education and Care; 7
- Appalachian Families and Poverty; 8
- Poverty and Economic Polarization Among Children in Racial Minority and Immigrant Families.
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- Processes of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Poor Families10
- Mexican American Families and Poverty; 11
- Mexican Immigrant Childbearing Women; 12
- Food Insecurity and Provisioning; 13
- How Economically Disadvantaged Are American Elderly Women?; 14
- The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Community Functioning of People With Serious Mental Illnessand Their Families; 15
- Addiction and Medicaid; 16
- Incarceration, Poverty, and Families; 17
- Children's Time Use and Parental Involvement in Low-Income Families; 18
- Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes for Children in Poverty.
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- Challenging Social Inequalities in HealthPart III: INTERVENTION AND EDUCATION FOR WORKING WITH POOR FAMILIES; 20
- Giving Head Start a Fresh Start; 21
- Grandparents; 22
- Poor Fathers' Involvement in the Lives of Their Children; 23
- The Health-Care Safety Netfor Mexican-Origin Families; 24
- Federal Policy Efforts to Improve Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Families by Supporting Marriage and Family Stability; 25
- Microenterprise; 26
- Working With Families in Poverty; 27
- Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors.