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9781403969644

Good Parents or Good Workers? How Policy Shapes Families' Daily Lives

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  • ISBN13:

    9781403969644

  • ISBN10:

    1403969647

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-09-03
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

Good Parents or Good Workers? draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates. Good Parents or Good Workers? is an important text on the impacts of welfare reform that will be essential reading in a variety of courses in education, sociology, and politics.

Author Biography

Jill Duerr Berrick is Professor, School of Social Welfare, Faculty Leader, Child Welfare Research Center, and Co-Director, Center for Child and Youth Policy, University of California at Berkeley.

Bruce Fuller is Professor, School of Education, University of California at Berkeley. He co-directs Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
About the Contributors viii
Foreword xi
Introduction New Family Policy: How the State Shapes Parents' Lives 1(16)
Jill Duerr Berrick
Bruce Fuller
Section I The Good Worker/The Good Mother
17(68)
Barriers to Self-Sufficiency: Are Wages and Welfare Enough?
19(15)
Laura Lein
``The Long Road to Quality Day Care and Work'': Women Define Pathways
34(29)
Desiree French
Bruce Fuller
James Mensing
Where Poverty and Parenting Intersect: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Caregiving
63(22)
Laura Frame
Section II Policy Effects on Poor Children
85(54)
Effects on Children as Parents Transition from Welfare to Employment
87(30)
Pamela A. Morris
Ellen K. Scott
Andrew S. London
Parenting in a Changing Welfare Policy Landscape: What Does It Mean for Young Children?
117(22)
Karie Frasch
Section III The Good Father
139(46)
How Mothers See Fathers
141(18)
Allison Zippay
Anu Rangarajan
Deadbeat Dads or Fatherhood in Poverty?
159(16)
David J. Pate, Jr.
Implications for Families, Children, and Policy Makers
175(10)
Jill Duerr Berrick
Bruce Fuller
Index 185

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