America's children : resources from family, government, and the economy /

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America's Children offers a valuable overview of the dramatic transformations in American childhood over the past fifty years, a period of historic shifts that reduced the human and material resources available to our children. Alarmingly, one fifth of all U.S. children now grow up in poverty,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hernandez, Donald J. (Donald James), 1948- (Autor), Myers, David E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1995.
Colección:Population of the United States in the 1980s.
Temas:
Children > United States.
Families > United States.
Child welfare > United States.
Children > Government policy > United States.
Enfants > États-Unis.
Familles > États-Unis.
Enfants > Protection, assistance, etc. > États-Unis.
Enfants > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Child welfare
Children
Children > Government policy
Families
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United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Resources for children : introduction and overview
  • The family-size revolution : from many to few siblings
  • The changing mix of parents and grandparents in childhood homes
  • Parents' work and the family economy twice transformed
  • Two child-care revolutions
  • Parents' education, other family origins, and the American dream
  • Children of poverty and luxury
  • The working poor, welfare dependence, and mother-only families
  • Family income sources, family size, and childhood poverty
  • Fathers' incomes, mothers' incomes, and mother-only families
  • Resources for children past, present, and future.

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