Good parents or good workers? : how policy shapes families' daily lives /

"Good Parents or Good Workers?" draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social program...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berrick, Jill Duerr, Fuller, Bruce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Temas:
Poor families > Government policy > United States > Congresses.
Family policy > United States > Congresses.
Public welfare > United States > Congresses.
Familles pauvres > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Congrès.
Politique familiale > États-Unis > Congrès.
Aide sociale > États-Unis > Congrès.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
Family policy
Public welfare
Armut
Sozialpolitik
Familie
Berufstätigkeit
United States
USA
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Barriers to self-sufficiency: are wages and welfare enough? / Laura Lein
  • "The long road to quality day care and work": women define pathways / Desiree French, Bruce Fuller, and ames Mensing
  • Where poverty and parenting intersect: the impact of welfare reform on caregiving / Laura Frame
  • Effects on children as parents transition from welfare to employment / Pamela A. Morris, Ellen K. Scott, and Andrew S. London
  • Parenting in a changing welfare policy landscape: what does it mean for young children? / Karie Frasch
  • How mothers see fathers / Allison Zippay and Anu Rangarajan
  • Deadbeat dads or fatherhood in poverty? / David J. Pate, Jr.
  • Implications for families, children, and policy makers / Jill Duerr Berrick and Bruce Fuller.

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