Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Valerie Polakow
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Single Parents
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780226671840
- ISBN-10
- 0226671844
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
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ISBN: 0226671844
Author: Polakow, Valerie
Condition: New
One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ranging critique of American educational and social policy. Stark, penetrating, and unflinching in its first-hand portraits of single mothers in America today, this work challenges basic myths about justice and democracy.
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