System Kids : Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation /

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This title explores the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on scholarship as well as her experience as a welfare programme manager, Lauren Silver...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Silver, Lauren J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Teenage mothers.
Maternal and infant welfare.
Child welfare.
Aid to families with dependent children programs.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Protection maternelle et infantile > États-Unis.
Aide sociale aux familles avec enfants à charge > États-Unis.
Meres adolescentes > États-Unis.
Maternal and infant welfare > United States.
Aid to families with dependent children programs > United States.
Child welfare > United States.
Teenage mothers > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. They want to see you fail : Dilemmas in child welfare
  • Playing case manager : Work life in a culture of fear
  • The better places don't want teen moms : Invisible lives, hidden program spaces
  • The real responsibility is on you! : The self-sufficiency trap
  • I am young. I'm not dumb; and I'm not anxious : Identity performances as service negotiation
  • The program allowed me to get pregnant : Everyday resistance, dignity, and fleeting collectives
  • Conclusion. Moving from disconnected systems to communities of care
  • Afterword. Interruptions in fieldwork.

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