Children in jeopardy : can we break the cycle of poverty?
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Children in jeopardy : can we break the cycle of poverty?
（The Yale Child Study Center monograph series on child psychiatry, child development, and social policy, vol. 1）
Yale Child Study Center, 1996
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780300068924
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American inner cities are filled with problems of violence, drugs, family discord, educational failure, and illiteracy. This work argues that the key to breaking the cycle of poverty, hopelessness and violence is very early intervention, giving adequate care to children from birth to age three.
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: pbk ISBN 9780300199802
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American children are in crisis. Inner cities are filled with violence and massive drug problems; families are dysfunctional; illiteracy is rising; society's efforts to combat educational failure, poverty, crime, and disease have created an enormous economic debt for the future. In this compassionate and controversial book Irving Harris argues that the key to breaking the cycle of poverty, hopelessness, and violence is very early intervention: we must provide adequate caregiving to children from birth to age three and-to stop the cycle even sooner-we must discourage pregnancy among adolescents. Harris, a successful businessman, has devoted himself to children's causes for the past forty years and has initiated and funded numerous programs geared to children and families. He presents data from research in pediatrics, social work, nursing psychology, and education showing that children who receive early nurturing and stimulation are far more likely to have success in school and in life. He urges that the government build more day-care centers and train more caregivers and public-health nurses for babies and small children; that schools offer instruction and counseling in prenatal care; and that there be easier access to contraceptives and abortions in order to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
Published by the Yale Child Study Center in association with Yale University Press
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