Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780789037404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 228 str.

Alfred Louis Joseph Jr; C. Anne Broussard

Opis

Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts addresses the context of poverty in the United States and focuses on poverty issues that family members must confront as they move through the life course. This edited collection provides a unique perspective that draws together macro and micro research about how poverty affects families throughout their lives, increasing risks and reducing opportunities at every stage. Individual chapters emphasize the context of poverty in the United States, then go on to examine specific life cycle stages and what happens when poverty intersects with family concerns. Contributing authors are respected experts in their fields and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives including child development, community health, education, family studies, gerontology, disability, public policy, social work and sociology. Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts includes a range of pedagogical features to enhance learning such as exercises and discussions relating to each chapter, which will encourage readers to think critically and apply the knowledge to their own lives. It will interest students, academics and researchers of sociology, family studies, social work and health as well as other related disciplines.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Poverty Context  Cross-Sections of Oppression and Poverty  2. "Greed is Good": The Idle Rich, The Working Poor and Personal Responsibility  3. Women in a Bind: The Decline of Marriage, Market and the State  4. Life After Welfare   5. The Dynamics of Poverty in Rural and Urban Areas  6. Hispanic Families in Poverty: The Hidden Contribution of Immigrants  Poverty Across the Life Span: Change, Crisis and Resilience  7. Family Poverty, Welfare Reform and Child Development  8. Childhood Disability, Poverty and Family Life: A Complex Relationship  9. Foster Care and Families Apart: Poverty, Placement and Potential  10. Poverty and Educational  11. Going It Alone: Single Motherhood and Poverty  12. Old and Poor: America’s Hidden Problem  Rethinking Family Poverty  13. Poverty, Stress, Resilience: Using the MRM Model for Understanding and Abating Poverty Related Family Stress  14. Poverty Policy and Ideology