Does It Take A Village?
Subtitle: Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families (Penn State University Family Issues Symposia)
Contributors: Alan Booth (Editor); Ann C. Crouter (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; Psychology Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780805832426
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Social & cultural anthropology; Social, group or collective psychology; Sociology Of Children; Developmental - General; Community; Urban youth; Sociology; Psychology; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Developmental - Adolescent; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology; Children and the environment; United States; Child rearing; City children
First sentence: A long-standing tradition of ecological research has documented the negative conditions for children associated with concentrated urban poverty and related dimensions of structural disadvantage such as racial segregation.