Children in Poverty
Child Development and Public Policy
- Editor: Aletha C. Huston, University of Texas, Austin
- Date Published: December 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521477567
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The number of children living in poverty in the United States increased dramatically during the 1980s and remains high. Why are so many children growing up in poor families? What are the effects of poverty on children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development? What role can public policy and policy research play in preventing or alleviating the damaging effects of poverty on children? Children in Poverty examines these questions, focusing on the child rather than on parents' income or self-sufficiency.
Read more- A wide-ranging study of the issues surrounding child poverty - the effects on a child's development and how public policy can alleviate the situation
- Comprehensive coverage with contributors from sociology, economics, public health, psychology, child development and education
- Although based on the American experience, this is a study of an important issue affecting all western societies
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'This is a timely and important book … It is an intelligent book that provides perhaps the most comprehensive single source available today on the subject.' American Journal of Sociology
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- Date Published: December 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521477567
- length: 344 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.488kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Children in poverty: developmental and policy issues
2. The economic environment of childhood
3. The role of mother-only families in reproducing poverty
4. The association between adolescent parenting and childhood poverty
5. The strain of living poor: parenting, social support, and child mental health
6. The health of poor children: problems and programs
7. With a little help: children in poverty and child care
8. Poverty, early childhood education, and academic competence: the Abecedarian experiment
9. Educational acceleration for at-risk students
10. Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions for children in poverty
11. Effective progras for children growing up in concentrated poverty
12. Antecedents, consequences, and possible solutions for poverty among children
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