Escape from Poverty: What Makes a Difference for Children? - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521629853 ISBN 13: 9780521629850

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The poverty rate for children in the United States exceeds that of all other Western, industrialized nations except Australia. Moreover, poverty among children has increased substantially since 1970, affecting more than one-fifth of U.S. children. These persistently high rates require new ideas in both research and public policy. Escape from Poverty presents such ideas. Contributors address four modes of possible change: mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care. It examines the implications of these new policy-driven changes for children.

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Book Description:

The exceptionally high and rising poverty rate of children within the U.S. begs attention from researchers and policy makers, who have the power to enact large scale changes.Escape from Poverty addresses the issue of child poverty, and calls for change within the areas of mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume examines the implications of the new policy-driven changes for children.

From the Back Cover:

The poverty rate for children in the United States exceeds that of all other Western, industrialized nations except Australia. Moreover, poverty among children has increased substantially since 1970, affecting more than one-fifth of U.S. children. These persistent high rates require new ideas in both research and public policy. This volume presents such ideas. Four arenas of possible change are addressed: mothers' employment, child care, fathers' involvement, and access to health care. These four types of change have each been brought under the umbrella of the Family Support Act of 1988, after several years of debate over welfare reform. The goal of this landmark legislation is to enable poor families to escape poverty by requiring education, employment training opportunities for mothers, and improving child support by noncustodial fathers. Escape from Poverty is designed to examine 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. This book will appeal to both researchers and policy makers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521629853
• ISBN 13: 9780521629850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Chase-Lansdale P. Lindsay, Brooks-Gunn Jeanne