Escape from Poverty : What Makes a Difference for Children? Hardback
Edited by P. Lindsay (University of Chicago) Chase-Lansdale, Jeanne (Columbia University, New York) Brooks-Gunn
Hardback
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The poverty rate for children in the United States exceeds that of all other Western, industrialised nations except Australia.
Moreover, poverty among children has increased substantially since 1970, affecting more than one-fifth of US children.
These persistent high rates require new ideas in both research and public policy.
Escape from Poverty presents such ideas. Four modes of possible change are addressed: mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care.
It examines the implications of these new policy-driven changes for children.
The editors have developed an interdisciplinary perspective, involving demographers, developmental psychologists, economists, health experts, historians, and sociologists - a framework essential for addressing the complexities inherent in the links between the lives of poor adults and children in our society.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages, 3 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/01/1996
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- ISBN:9780521445214
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages, 3 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/01/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521445214