Handbook of families & poverty / D. Russell Crane, Tim B. Heaton, editors.
Material type: TextPublication details: Los Angeles ; London : Sage Publications, c2008.Description: xiv, 495 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN:- 9781412950428 (cloth)
- 1412950422 (cloth)
- Handbook of families and poverty
- 362.556 22 CRA
- HC110.P6 H36 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface
Introduction
Section 1: What Welfare Can and Cannot Do
Gary Bryner and Ryan Martin
1. Innovation in Social Policy: Evaluating State Efforts to Reform Welfare, Promote Work, and Help Low-Income Families Lawrence M. Mead
2. Social Policy and Marriage Anjali Gupta, Jessica W. Thornton and Aletha C. Huston
3. Working Families Should Not Be Poor – The New Hope Program Kevin D. Blair and David Taylor
4. Who will Care when Parents Can’t?: An Overview of Trends in Kinship Care
Section 2: Poverty among Diverse Populations and Settings
Rand Conger and Katherine Jewsbury Conger
5. Understanding the Processes through which Economic Hardship Influences Rural Families and Children Anna D. Johnson, Kate Tarrant and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
6. Early Childhood Education and Care: An Opportunity to Enhance the Lives of Poor Children W. Sean Newsome, Kevin R. Bush , Charles B. Hennon, Gary W. Peterson and Stephan M. Wilson
7. Appalachian families and poverty: Historical issues and contemporary economic trends Daniel T. Lichter, Zhenchao Qian and Martha L. Crowley
8. Poverty and Economic Polarization among Children in Racial Minority and Immigrant Families Angela Abela and Charles Tabone
9. Processes of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Poor Families Scott L. Coltrane, Ross D. Parke, Thomas J. Schofield, Shigueru J. Tsuha, Michael Chavez and Shoon Lio
10. Mexican American Families and Poverty Lynn Clark Callister and Ana Birkhead
11. Mexican Immigrant Childbearing Women: Social Support and Perinatal Outcomes Erin Feinauer Whiting and Carol J. Ward
12. Food Insecurity and Provisioning: Chronic Challenges Faced by Families Living in Poverty On the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation Martha N. Ozawa and Hong-Sik Yoon
13. How Economically Disadvantaged are American Elderly Women? Gender Differences in Economic Well-Being in Old Age Eric D. Johnson
14. The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Community Functioning of People with Serious Mental Illness and Their Families Harvey Hillin
15. Addiction and Medicaid: A Prairie Sighting of Califano’s “Elephant in the Living Room of American Society” and State Budgets Stephen J. Bahr
16. Incarceration, Poverty, and Families W. Jean Yeung and Rebecca K. Glauber
17. Children’s Time Use and Parental Involvement in Low-Income Families R. Gabriela Barajas, Nina Philipsen, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
18. Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes for Children in Poverty Michael Murray and David F. Marks
19. Challenging Social Inequalities in Health
Sections 3: Intervention and Education for Working with Poor Families
Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
20. Giving Head Start a Fresh Start Lynda Clarke
21. Grandparents: A Family Resource? Melvin N. Wilson
22. Poor Fathers Involvement in the Lives of Their Children Ronald J. Angel, Jacqueline L. Angel, and Laura Lein
23. The Health Care Safety Net for Mexican American Families M. Robin Dion and Alan J. Hawkins
24. Federal Policy Efforts to Improve Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Families by Supporting Marriage and Family Stability Warner P. Woodworth
25. Microenterprise: Building Well-being Among Poor U.S. Families Matthew Sanders and William Bor
26. Working with families in poverty: Towards a multilevel population-based approach Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, and Patrick F. Fagan
27. Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty Erin Feinauer Whiting, Carol J. Ward Chapter
12: Food Insecurity and Provisioning: Chronic Challenges Faced by Families Living in Poverty On the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation Hong-Sik Yoon, Martha N. Ozawa Chapter
13: How Economically Disadvantaged are American Elderly Women? Gender Differences in Economic Well-Being in Old Age Gary C Bryner, Ryan T. Martin
Chapter 01: Innovation in Social Policy: Evaluating State Efforts to Reform Welfare, Promote Work, and Help Low-Income Families Lawrence M. Mead
Chapter 02: Social Policy and Marriage Anjali E. Gupta, Jessica W. Thornton-Walker, Aletha C. Huston Chapter 03: Working Families Should Not Be Poor - The New Hope Program Kevin D. Blair, David B. Taylor
Chapter 04: Who will Care when Parents Can’t?: An Overview of Trends in Kinship Care With a Focus on the Child-Only Provisions of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program Rand Conger, Katherine Jewsbury Conger
Chapter 05: Understanding the Processes through which Economic Hardship Influences Rural Families and Children Anna D. Johnson, Kate Tarrant, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Chapter 06: Early Childhood Education and Care: An Opportunity to Enhance the Lives of Poor Children Sean Newsome, Kevin R. Bush, Charles B. Hennon, Gary Peterson, Stephan M. Wilson
Chapter 07: Appalachian Families and Poverty: Historical Issues and Contemporary Economic Trends Lynn Clark Callister, Ana Birkhead
Chapter 11: Mexican Immigrant Childbearing Women: Social Support and Perinatal Outcomes Ronald J. Angel, Jacqueline L. Angel, Laura Lein
Chapter 23: The Health Care Safety Net for Mexican American Families Eric D. Johnson
Chapter 14: The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Community Functioning of People with Serious Mental Illness and Their Families Harvey H. Hillin
Chapter 15: Addiction and Medicaid: A Prairie Sighting of Califano’s “Elephant in the Living Room of American Society” and State Budgets Stephen J. Bahr
Chapter 16: Incarceration, Poverty, and Families Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Rebecca Glauber
Chapter 17: Children’s Time Use and Parental Involvement in Low-Income Families R. Gabriela Barajas, Nina Mareike Philipsen, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Chapter 18: Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes for Children in Poverty Michael Murray, David F. Marks
Chapter 19: Challenging Social Inequalities in Health Douglas J. Besharov, Caeli A. Higney
Chapter 20: Giving Head Start a Fresh Start Lynda Clarke
Chapter 21: Grandparents: A Family Resource? Melvin N. Wilson
Chapter 22: Poor Fathers Involvement in the Lives of Their Children M. Robin Dion
Chapter 24: Federal Policy Efforts to Improve Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Families by
Supporting Marriage and Family Stability Warner P. Woodworth
Chapter 25: Microenterprise: Building Well-being Among Poor U.S. Families Matthew R Sanders, William Bor
Chapter 26: Working with Families in Poverty: Towards a Multilevel Population-Based Approach Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Patrick F. Fagan
Chapter 27: Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty Daniel T. Lichter, Zhenchao Qian, Martha L. Crowley
Chapter 08: Poverty and Economic Polarization among Children in Racial Minority and Immigrant Families Angela Abela, Carmel Tabone
Chapter 09: Processes of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Poor Families Scott L. Coltrane, Ross D. Parke, Thomas Schofield, Shigeru Tusha, Michael Chavez, Shoon Liu
Chapter 10: Mexican American Families and Poverty
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