Moving Up and Out
Subtitle: Poverty, Education, and the Single Parent Family
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781566399159
Subjects: Family welfare; Funding of education; Poverty; Single parents; Women's studies; Sociology; Poor women; Education; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Arkansas; Women heads of households; American; Single mothers
Description: Focuses on one nonprofit community organization which has since 1984 provided scholarships for single parents interested in obtaining their post-secondary education. Draws upon the voices of single parents to consider the barriers and struggles faced as they attempt to obtain secondary education and change the lives of both themselves and their children. [publisher web site].