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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784133603321

Autore

Berrick Jill Duerr

Titolo

Good Parents or Good Workers? [[electronic resource] ] : How Policy Shapes Families' Daily Lives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36869-5

9786611368692

1-4039-8053-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FullerBruce

I.Sawhill

Disciplina

306.850973

Soggetti

Family policy

Poor families

Public welfare

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: New Family Policy: How the State Shapes Parents' Lives; Section I The Good Worker/The Good Mother; Section II Policy Effects on Poor Children; Section III The Good Father; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""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 wel