Children in jeopardy : can we break the cycle of poverty? /

In this compassionate and controversial book Irving Harris argues that the key to breaking the cycle of poverty, hopelessness, and violence is very early intervention: we must provide adequate caregiving to children from birth to age three and - to stop the cycle even sooner - we must discourage pre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, Irving B. (Irving Brooks), 1910-2004 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale Child Study Center, [1996]
Colección:Yale Child Study Center monograph series on child psychiatry, child development, and social policy ; vol. 1.
Temas:
Child welfare > United States.
Children with social disabilities > Services for > United States.
Poor children > Services for > United States.
Teenage pregnancy > United States > Prevention.
Enfants > Protection, assistance, etc. > États-Unis.
Enfants handicapés sociaux, Services aux > États-Unis.
Enfants pauvres, Services aux > États-Unis.
Grossesse chez l'adolescente > États-Unis > Prévention.
Enfants socialement défavorisés > Services > États-Unis.
Enfants pauvres > Services > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Child welfare
Children with social disabilities > Services for
Poor children > Services for
Teenage pregnancy > Prevention
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Kind
Unterprivilegierung
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: an odyssey of learning
  • Raised in jeopardy
  • Successful intervention and its limits
  • Primary prevention and the Right to Life
  • The cost of failure
  • The abortion question
  • The cycle of poverty and violence: a reassessment
  • Trends in education, poverty, violence, and punishment
  • Breaking the cycle: a new war on poverty, 1996.

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