| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) |
| Contents |
Barriers to self-sufficiency: are wages and welfare enough? / Laura Lein -- "The long road to quality day care and work": women define pathways / Desiree French, Bruce Fuller, and ames Mensing -- Where poverty and parenting intersect: the impact of welfare reform on caregiving / Laura Frame -- Effects on children as parents transition from welfare to employment / Pamela A. Morris, Ellen K. Scott, and Andrew S. London -- Parenting in a changing welfare policy landscape: what does it mean for young children? / Karie Frasch -- How mothers see fathers / Allison Zippay and Anu Rangarajan -- Deadbeat dads or fatherhood in poverty? / David J. Pate, Jr. -- Implications for families, children, and policy makers / Jill Duerr Berrick and Bruce Fuller |
| Summary |
"Good Parents or Good Workers?" draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates." Good Parents or Good Workers?" is an important text on th |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented at a national conference sponsored by the Haas Jr. Fund of San Francisco in 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Poor families -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses
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Family policy -- United States -- Congresses
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Public welfare -- United States -- Congresses
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
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Family policy.
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Public welfare.
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Armut
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Sozialpolitik
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Familie
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Berufstätigkeit
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United States.
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berrick, Jill Duerr.
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Fuller, Bruce.
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| ISBN |
9781403980533 |
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1403980535 |
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1403969647 |
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9781403969644 |
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