The vulnerable child
Subtitle: what really hurts America's children and what we can do about it
By: Richard Weissbourd.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Child welfare -- United States.; Problem children -- United States.; Problem families -- United States.; Family policy -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263) and index.
Table of contents: title: What ever happened to Huckleberry Finn? -- Poverty - quiet catastrophes broke but not broken : the positive fates of poor children -- African-American children -- Disadvantaged but not poor -- The limits of parental responsibility -- The real roots of success and failure. An interactive model -- Winner-loser myths -- The mysteries of childhood -- Families untied? Divorce and unwed motherhood : the distance between rhetoric and reality -- Children born to unwed mothers : was Dan Quayle right? -- Using schools and communities -- Butted children and other myths about maternal employment -- Looking inside families. Siblings and the architecture of family life -- The roots of gangs and cliques. Gangs -- Cliques and other problems in friendship -- Communities : more than kind and less than kin. Stressful social networks and the importance of multiple communities for parents -- Multiple communities for children -- Geographic mobility -- The troubles of ghetto children. Violence -- The quiet troubles of ghetto children -- Why our efforts to help children fail. Why the system fails -- The shackles on caregiving professionals -- Services that don’t work -- Only human caregivers -- Healthy starts. The South End Community Health Center : trying something new -- Hawaii’s experiment -- Resource mothers -- Schools that work. Effective schools -- Making the exceptional typical -- Even if the boat goes down : child protective services. The Parkside Office -- Family preservation -- The police. Creating trust -- Listening to children -- The New Haven experiment -- Beyond the edifice complex : what cities can do -- Family support centers -- Focusing on crucial junctures -- Continuous care for children -- Family-friendly cities.