Escape from Poverty: What Makes a Difference for Children?

by Edited by P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale , Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

• ISBN13: 9780521445214
• ISBN10: 0521445213
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The poverty rate for children in the United States exceeds that of all other Western, industrialized nations except Australia. Moreover, poverty among children has increased substantially since 1970, affecting more than one-fifth of U.S. children. These persistently high rates require new ideas in both research and public policy. Escape from Poverty presents such ideas. Contributors address four modes of possible change: mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care. It examines the implications of these new policy-driven changes for children.

Table of Contents

1. Whose responsibility? An historical analysis of the changing role of mothers, fathers, and society P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Maris A. Vinovskis

2. The life circumstances and development of children in welfare families Nicholas Zill, Kristin Moore, Ellen Wolpow Smith, Thomas Stief, and Mary Jo Coiro

3. Welfare to work through the eyes of children Julie Boatright Wilson, David Ellwood and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

4. Strategies for altering the outcomes of poor children and their families Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

5. Policy issues of child care Andrew J. Cherlin

6. Child care and children of color Margaret Beale Spencer, Janet Blumenthal and Elizabeth Richards

7. Health policy in the Family Support Act of 1988 Katherine S. Lobach

8. Economic issues of health care Barbara L. Wolfe

9. Dealing with Dads: the changing roles of fathers Frank J. Furstenberg Jr

10. The effects of child support reform on child well-being Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan

11. Losing ground or moving ahead: welfare reform and children Ron Haskins

12. National surveys as data resources for public policy research on poor children Nicholas Zill

13. An interdisciplinary model for studying poor children Timothy M. Smeeding

14. Two generation programs: a new intervention strategy and directions for future Sheila Smith.