This edited collection addresses the context of poverty in the United States and focuses on poverty issues that family members must confront as they move through the life course.
List of Illustrations
p. vii
List of Contributors
p. ix
Acknowledgments
p. xi
Introduction: The Poverty Context
p. 1
Cross-Sections of Oppression and Poverty
p. 9
"Greed Is Good": The Idle Rich, the Working Poor, and Personal Responsibility
p. 11
Women in a Bind: The Decline of Marriage, Market, and the State
p. 26
Life After Welfare Reform
p. 48
The Dynamics of Rural Family Poverty
p. 64
Hispanic Families in Poverty: The Hidden Contribution of Immigration
p. 78
Poverty Across the Life Span: Change, Crisis, and Resilience
p. 93
Family Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Child Development
p. 95
Childhood Disability, Poverty, and Family Life: A Complex Relationship
p. 108
Foster Care and Families Apart: Poverty, Placement, and Potential
p. 121
Poverty and Education
p. 138
Going It Alone: Single Motherhood and Poverty
p. 150
Old and Poor: America's Hidden Problem
p. 167
Rethinking Family Poverty
p. 185
Poverty, Stress, Resilience: Using the MRM Model for Understanding and Abating Poverty-Related Family Stress
p. 187
Poverty, Policy, and Ideology
p. 203
Index
p. 220
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