02551nam 2200529Ia 450 991081765600332120200520144314.01-281-36869-597866113686921-4039-8053-5(CKB)1000000000342714(EBL)307832(OCoLC)560191472(MiAaPQ)EBC307832(EXLCZ)99100000000034271420041220d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGood parents or good workers? how policy shapes families' daily lives /edited by Jill Duerr Berrick and Bruce Fuller1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (199 p.)Papers originally presented at a national conference sponsored by the Haas Jr. Fund of San Francisco in 2001.1-349-73528-0 1-4039-6964-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 welPoor familiesGovernment policyUnited StatesCongressesFamily policyUnited StatesCongressesPublic welfareUnited StatesCongressesPoor familiesGovernment policyFamily policyPublic welfare306.850973Berrick Jill Duerr1615145Fuller Bruce1615146MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817656003321Good Parents or Good Workers3945218UNINA