Good Parents or Good Workers?
Subtitle: How Policy Shapes Families' Daily Lives
Contributors: Jill Duerr Berrick (Editor); Bruce Fuller (Editor); I. Sawhill (Preface)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781403969644
Subjects: Poverty; Social Policy; Government policy; Social Work; Social Science; Education / Teaching; Public welfare; Sociology; Public Policy - Social Policy; Poor families; Educational Policy & Reform; Elementary; Social Science / Social Work; United States; Congresses; Family policy
Description: "Good Parents or Good Workers? illuminates the everyday lives of poor families and reveals how dramatic changes in family welfare policies over the past decade have, and have not, touched the work, child care practices, and relationships of these often inspiring mothers and fathers. Drawing upon several local, state, and national qualitative studies, this research compliments the mounting evidence available from large-scale quantitative studies. Jill Duerr Berrick, Bruce Fuller, and contributors focus on how women and men are reading the policy signals, rules, and incentives as they attempt to raise their children and earn sufficient income to hold their families together. In short, Good Parents or Good Workers? places the panoply of family policies in the context of the daily demands faced by these parents."--Jacket.