02242nam 22004933u 450 991045085920332120210114061005.01-281-36869-597866113686921-4039-8053-5(CKB)1000000000342714(EBL)307832(OCoLC)560191472(MiAaPQ)EBC307832(EXLCZ)99100000000034271420130418d2006|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Good Parents or Good Workers?[electronic resource] How Policy Shapes Families' Daily LivesNew York Palgrave Macmillan20061 online resource (199 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-73528-0 1-4039-6964-7 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""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 welFamily policyPoor familiesPublic welfareElectronic books.Family policy.Poor families.Public welfare.306.850973Berrick Jill Duerr884461Fuller Bruce890843I.Sawhill980578AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910450859203321Good Parents or Good Workers2237387UNINA