Escape from Poverty

What Makes a Difference for Children?

By: P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (Editor), Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Editor)

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Paperback | 27 April 1998

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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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"While numerous long range studies are currently being implemented to track the fortunes of families on income support, it is vital that social workers and social service administrators use the available scientific knowledge to prevent more children from falling into poverty. It is in this regard that this book will be particularly useful...[T]here is much in the collection that will be of interest and value to those who are concerned with the pressing problem of child poverty today." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "A great deal of attention is given to evaluation of available relevant research and showing the implications as well as the limitations of such research and explicitly pointing out issues in need of further scientific investigation." Paul Mussen, UCLA Professor Emeritus of Psychology "...there is much in the collection that will be of interest and value to those who are concerned with the pressing problem of child poverty today." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Editors and Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Current and historical overview of children in poverty
Whose responsibility? An historical analysis of the changing roles of mothers, fathers, and society	p. 11
The life circumstances and development of children in welfare families: A profile based on national survey data	p. 38
Maternal employment
Welfare-to-work through the eyes of children	p. 63
Strategies for altering the outcomes of poor children and their families	p. 87
Child care
Policy issues of child care	p. 121
Child care and children of color	p. 138
Health care
Health policy in the Family Support Act of 1988	p. 159
Economic issues of health care	p. 170
Fathers
Dealing with dads: The changing roles of fathers	p. 189
The effects of child support reform on child well-being	p. 211
Future policy and research directions
Losing ground or moving ahead? Welfare reform and children	p. 241
National surveys as data resources for public policy research on poor children	p. 272
An interdisciplinary model and data requirements for studying poor children	p. 291
Two-generation programs: A new intervention strategy and directions for future research	p. 299
Index	p. 315
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