Handbook of families and poverty / D. Russell Crane, Tim B. Heaton, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crane, D. Russell.

Heaton, Tim B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

United States.

Poor families--United States.

Poor families.

Families--United States.

Families.

Economic assistance, Domestic--United States.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

xiv, 495 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Sage Publications, [2008]

Summary:

Comprising works by respected scholars from a variety of relevant disciplines, the Handbook of Families and Poverty covers hotly debated issues associated with public policy and funded research as they relate to families and poverty. Editors D. Russell Crane and Tim B. Heaton include state-of-the-art scholarship related to couple, marital, and family influences on poverty. Contributors offer multiple perspectives showing alternatives to welfare in subgroups facing specific challenges that are currently not adequately addressed by the welfare system.

Key Features: Offers an interdisciplinary perspective: This volume affords a comprehensive view of the issues facing families in poverty, including the perspectives of those in areas such as business, child development, family studies, psychology, public policy, social work, and sociology. Provides a range of important information regarding applications and theoretical issues: Chapters include topics such as parenting interventions for childhood behavioral problems, aging, fathers' involvement in poor families, grandparents as resources for poor families, and mental illness and issues of addiction. Presents a thorough review of issues related to public policy: While several other works focus on welfare reform and poverty, none of them includes as extensive a discussion as this volume.

Contents:

Part I What Welfare Can and Cannot Do

1 Innovation in Social Policy: Evaluating State Efforts to Reform Welfare, Promote Work, and Help Low-Income Families / Gary Bryner, Ryan Martin 2

2 Social Policy and Marriage / Lawrence M. Head 22

3 Working Families Should Not Be Poor: The New Hope Program / Anjali E. Gupta, Jessica Thornton Walker, Aletha C. Huston 32

4 Who Will Care When Parents Can't? An Overview of Trends in Kinship Care With a Focus on the Child-Only Provisions of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program / Kevin D. Blair, David B. Taylor 48

Part II Poverty Among Diverse Populations and Settings

5 Understanding the Processes Through Which Economic Hardship Influences Families and Children / Rand D. Conger, Katherine Jewsbury Conger 64

6 Early Childhood Education and Care: An Opportunity to Enhance the Lives of Poor Children / Anna D. Johnson, Kate Tarrant, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 82

7 Appalachian Families and Poverty: Historical Issues and Contemporary Economic Trends / W. Sean Newsome, Kevin R. Bush, Charles B. Hennon, Gary W. Peterson, Stephan M. Wilson 104

8 Poverty and Economic Polarization Among Children in Racial Minority and Immigrant Families / Daniel T. Lichter, Zhenchao Qian, Martha L. Crowley 119

9 Processes of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Poor Families / Angela Abela, Carmel Tabone 144

10 Mexican American Families and Poverty / Scott Coltrane, Ross D. Parke, Thomas J. Schofield, Shigueru J. Tsuha, Michael Chavez, Shoon Lio 161

11 Mexican Immigrant Childbearing Women: Social Support and Perinatal Outcomes / Lynn Clark Callister, Ana Birkhead 181

12 Food Insecurity and Provisioning: Chronic Challenges Faced by Families Living in Poverty on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation / Erin Feinauer Whiting, Carol J. Ward 198

13 How Economically Disadvantaged Are American Elderly Women? Gender Differences in Economic Well-Being in Old Age / Martha N. Ozawa, Hong-Sik Yoon 220

14 The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Community Functioning of People With Serious Mental Illness and Their Families / Eric D. Johnson 239

15 Addiction and Medicaid: A Prairie Sighting of Califano's "Elephant in the Living Room of American Society" and State Budgets / Harvey H. Hillin 254

16 Incarceration, Poverty, and Families / Stephen J. Bahr 269

17 Children's Time Use and Parental Involvement in Low-Income Families / W. Jean Yeung, Rebecca Glauber 288

18 Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes for Children in Poverty / R. Gabriela Barajas, Nina Philipsen, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 311

19 Challenging Social Inequalities in Health / Michael Murray, David F. Marks 334

Part III Intervention and Education for Working with Poor Families

20 Giving Head Start a Fresh Start / Douglas J. Besharov, Caeli A. Higney 350

21 Grandparents: A Family Resource? / Lynda Clarke 365

22 Poor Fathers' Involvement in the Lives of Their Children / Melvin N. Wilson 381

23 The Health-Care Safety Net for Mexican-Origin Families / Ronald J. Angel, Jacqueline L. Angel, Laura Lein 395

24 Federal Policy Efforts to Improve Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Families by Supporting Marriage and Family Stability / M. Robin Dion, Alan J. Hawkins 411

25 Microenterprise: Building Well-Being Among Poor U.S. Families / Warner P. Woodworth 426

26 Working With Families in Poverty: Toward a Multilevel, Population-Based Approach / Matthew R. Sanders, William Bor 442

27 Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty / Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Patrick F. Fagan 457.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412950428

1412950422

OCLC:

124036259