Lives on the Edge
Subtitle: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 28, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780226671840
Subjects: Poverty; Single parents; Women's studies; USA; General; Parenting - Single Parent; Social Science / Gender Studies; Sociology
First sentence: DOSTOYEVSKY CHRONICLES THE SUFFERING of children-both of the poor and the privileged-as Ivan Karamazov questions the absurdity of a universe in which children are the victims of adult power and brutality, of the ideals of a civilization run amok.