Keepin' on : the everyday struggles of young families in poverty
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Keepin' on : the everyday struggles of young families in poverty
P.H. Brookes, c2006
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book grows out of a five-year research project aimed at understanding the strengths and challenges of urban families who face issues related to young single-parenthood, racial minority status, and poverty in an era of welfare reform. The authors share insights regarding individual, family, community, and program factors that facilitate and/or constrain the effectiveness of intervention programs with these children and their families. The book addresses many important topics (Early Head Start, home visiting, relationships, transition, poverty, welfare reform) and describes a well-designed research project. It offers a strengths-based, reflective, and insightful look at an at-risk population.
Table of Contents
- Part I: What We Did and Who We Are
- Transition
- The Background: Early Head Start History and an Introduction to the Mothers
- Theoretical Perspectives and Research Method
- Part II: Andreya: An In-Depth Case Study
- Preface to "Andreya" and The Cast of Characters
- Up to Age 15
- Becoming a Mother
- Mother of Two
- After Moving Out
- Part III: Family and Romantic Relationships
- Mothers with their Parents
- Matters of the Heart: Romantic Relationships
- Raising Children
- Young Fathers in Mothers' and Children's Lives
- Part IV: Beyond the Family
- Neighbors and Friends
- Helping Children and Families: Home Visitor Roles and Dilemmas
- Child Care Arrangements: Options and Preferences
- Violence
- Part V: Implications
- Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers
- Commentaries
- Research voice
- Practitioner
- Policy voice
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