Escape from Poverty What Makes a Difference for Children [Paperback]

Escape from Poverty addresses the recent increase of child poverty within the USA and suggests specific modes of change.The exceptionally high and rising poverty rate of children within the U.S. begs attention from researchers and policy makers, who have the power to enact large scale changes.Escape from Poverty addresses the issue of child poverty, and calls for change within the areas of mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume examines the implications of the new policy-driven changes for children.The exceptionally high and rising poverty rate of children within the U.S. begs attention from researchers and policy makers, who have the power to enact large scale changes.Escape from Poverty addresses the issue of child poverty, and calls for change within the areas of mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume examines the implications of the new policy-driven changes for children.The poverty rate for children in the United States exceeds that of all other Western, industrialized nations except Australia. Moreover, poverty among children has increased substantially since 1970, affecting more than one-fifth of U.S. children. These persistently high rates require new ideas in both research and public policy. Escape from Poverty presents such ideas. Contributors address four modes of possible change: mothers' employment, child care, father involvement, and access to health care. It examines the implications of these new policy-driven changes for children.1. Whose responsibility? An historical analysis of the changing role of mothers, fathers, and society P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Maris A. Vinovskis; 2. The life circumstances and development of children in welfare families Nicholas Zill, Kristin Moore, Ellen Wolpow Smith, Thomas Stief, and Mary Jo Coiro; 3. Welfare to work through the eyesl4