Children of Poverty
Child Support and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults: Changes in the 1980s
1st Edition
By Pedro M. Hernandez
September 30, 2021
Appendices. Bibliography. Index....
Neither Urban Jungle Nor Urban Village: Women, Families, and Community Development
1st Edition
By Sara Stoutland
September 30, 2020
First published in 1997. This is part of the Children of Poverty series, a collection of works on the effects of single parenthood, the feminisation of poverty and homelessness. This text looks at women, families and community development using case studies of tenant activists in Egleston Square ...
Child Maltreatment and Psychological Distress Among Urban Homeless Youth
1st Edition
By Lisa Russell
January 16, 2019
This book describes a secondary analysis of survey data collected from a modified snowball sample of 96 homeless and runaway youth. The sample contains youth from selected street and social service sites located within a geographically defined region of Los Angeles. The analysis examines the area ...
Educating Homeless Children: Witness to a Cataclysm
1st Edition
By Rebecca Newman
January 16, 2019
Newman's ethnographic study considers the ways in which the family and school environments of eleven homeless school children affected their school performance. Homelessness is revealed to be multi-faceted, serving simultaneously as a cause, result, and potentiator of their families' problems. A ...
Family Empowerment: One Outcome of Parental Participation in Cooperative Preschool Education
1st Edition
By Katherine Dunlap
January 16, 2019
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Positive effects of preschool education on children have been well documented (Berrueta-Clement et al., 1984; Consortium for Longitudinal Studies, 1983, Deutsch, Jordan, & Deutsch, 1985; Lazar & ...
Neighborhood Context and the Development of African American Children
1st Edition
By Maria Loreto Martinez
February 27, 2017
The evidence of worsening life conditions, concentration of poverty, and high degree of African American segregation in urban areas has led to a growing interest in how neighborhood contexts effect child development and parenting behavior. This study attempts to understand development in context by...
Homelessness and Its Consequences: The Impact on Children's Psychological Well-being
1st Edition
By Rosemarie T. Downer
November 18, 2016
This book explores in detail the concept of homelessness by examining the dynamics of shelter living and the financial costs in comparison to the psychological costs to the children and the family. A comparison is made with housed low-income families to highlight the fact that homelessness, outside...
African American Men in Crisis: Proactive Strategies for Urban Youth
1st Edition
By Wesley E. Pullman
October 11, 2016
The challenges and obstacles to full participation of African American men in the mainstream economic and social structure of American life is rapidly becoming an area of public debate. The essential rationale for this work is that there is a need to clarify the basic issues and to achieve a better...
Not Just a Shelter Kid: How Homeless Children Find Solace
1st Edition
By Melanie S. Percy
September 02, 2016
First published in 1997. This book is about children, and their perspectives. These children were homeless at the time of these interviews. However, their questions, thoughts, and feelings are not unique to homeless children. The many issues of childhood remain the same regardless of where the ...
Head Start Social Services: How African American Mothers Use and Perceive Them
1st Edition
By Gary Lacy
August 26, 2016
First published in 1999. Project Head Start, a federal child development program for low-income families, serves both the mother and her children. Previous studies have emphasized Head Start's influence on the child in terms of cognitive gains, social development, and social-emotional development. ...
Child Social Well-Being in the U.S.: Unequal Opportunities and the Role of the State
1st Edition
By Ingrid Philips Whitaker
August 04, 2016
First published in 2000. Part of the Children of Poverty series that offers studies on the effects of the single parenthood, the feminization of poverty and homelessness, this volume looks at the unequal opportunities and role of the State when looking at the complex issue of child well-being in ...
Children Living in Temporary Shelters: How Homelessness Effects Their Perception of Home
1st Edition
By Alice M. Epps
August 04, 2016
First published in 1998. The problem of homelessness is increasing nationally in volume, variety, and visibility, with the subpopulation of homeless families with children growing the fastest. An unstable living environment places these families, especially the children at risk, of accomplishing ...