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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara A Arrighi; David J Maume |
| ISBN: | 9780275989262 0275989267 9780275989279 0275989275 9780275989286 0275989283 9780275989293 0275989291 9780275989309 0275989305 |
| OCLC Number: | 80917308 |
| Description: | 4 v. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1. FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: The effect of child care on employment tardiness and absences for mothers: does marital status matter? / Sandra L. Barnes and Mia Smith Bynum -- The no-so tender trap: family violence and child poverty / Ruth A. Brandwein -- Diversity in living arrangements and children's economic well-being in single-mother households / Pamela R. Davidson -- Family context, income adequacy, and child-care needs: the bottom line for San Antonio's future / Juanita M. Firestone -- Child care and the potential for breaking intergovernmental poverty / Josefina Figueina-McDonough -- Under a watchful eye: parents and children living in shelters / Donna Haig Friedman -- The work of coordinating child care for rural low-income mothers / E. Brooke Kelly -- Conflict between wage work and care work: how single-parent families of children with disabilities manage to juggle competing demands / Ellen K. Scott -- Children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence in the United States, 1990-2000 / Jeffrey M. Timberlake and Joseph Michael -- Children and the changing social ecology of economic disadvantage in urban America / Robert L. Wagmiller, Jr. -- Childhood victimization as a precursor to violence among adult homeless women / Jana L. Jasinski, Jennifer K. Wesely, Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine, and James D. Wright -- v. 2. HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE: Understanding poverty, race, and infant mortality / Charles N. Oberg and Maria C. Rinaldi -- Child hunger in the United States: an overview / Katherine Alaimo -- Breathing poorly: childhood asthma and poverty / Cindy Dell Clark -- Children, rural poverty, and disability: case studies from the heartland / Cynthia Needles Fletcher and Mary Winter -- Factors affecting utilization of mental health services by low-income Latino children: a model of personal help-seeking behavior / Ricardo R. Einaldi and Laurie B. Mazzuca -- Perception of help-seeking and mental health service use among parents of Head Start children / Michael S. Spencer, Laura P. Kohn-Wood, Rachael D. Jankowski, Stacey Lyn Grant, and Jennifer Elizabeth McCall -- Immigrant status, poverty, and child health / Magdalena Staffarski and Jun Ying -- Immigrant children in poverty / Uma A. Segal, Zubin N. Segal, and Ann R. Diwakaran -- v. 3. THE PROMISE OF EDUCATION: What do public child care dollars buy? It depends / Deborah A. Phillips and Marcy Whitebook -- Which schools have the most segregated classrooms? A look inside New York City schools / Dylan Conger -- Family poverty, classroom instruction, and mathematics achievement in kindergarten / Annie Georges -- Are children in poverty closing the learning gap? Education reform and elementary school performance in Kentucky / Edward B. Reeves -- The accumulation of disadvantage: the role of educational testing in the school career of minority children / Sandra Mathison -- Family and other baseline coorelates of GED versus other academic attainment statuses among adolescents / Richard K. Caputo -- Between the lines, on the stage, and in the club: additional ways students find to overcome disadvantage through school / Jason M. Smith -- To work or not to work? The role of poverty, race/ethnicity, and regional location in youth employment / Constance T. Gager, Jacqueline C. Pflieger, and Jennifer Hickes Lundquist -- Moral capital, single motherhood, educational attainment, and personal responsibility / Judith Hennessy -- v. 4. CHILDREN AND THE STATE: (Re)conceptualizing adolescent homelessness: misdirection of the state and child welfare / william T. Armaline -- Child welfare and welfare reform: a study of one community / Kathleen Wells -- Navigating the welfare time limit in California: how do families fare? / Jane Gilbert-Maulden, Rebecca A. London, and Heidi Sommer -- Women and children in the health care gap / Jane Henricki, Ronald J. Angel, and Laura Lein -- Dispersing the poor: new directions in public housing policy / Alexandra M. Curley -- Providing educational opportunities for children living in poverty / Hassan Tajalli -- How education policy continues to leave poor children behind / Roseanne L. Flores -- The education of Black children living in poverty: a systemic analysis / Garrett Albert Duncan and Gail E. Wolfe -- Resettling refugee children / Qingwen Xu and Denise Pearson. |
| Series Title: | Praeger perspectives |
| Responsibility: | edited by Barbara A. Arrighi and David J. Maume ; introduction by Diana Pearce. |
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