Mothers in Poverty: A Study of Fatherless Families

by Louis Kriesberg

Overview

Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages themselves, that the poor seek out public housing and public assistance because they prefer such dependency, or that husbandless mothers all have lower educational goals for their children than do married mothers. Beginning with major theoretical issues, Kriesberg developed hypotheses about the life of the poor and culture of poverty; the hypotheses were tested with data from a study of families in public housing projects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351504485
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	356
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

F.G. Bailey

Table of Contents

1: On Explaining the Life Style of the Poor; 2: Conditions and Processes; 3: Research Design and Characteristics of Families in the Study; 4: Enclaves of Poverty; 5: The Selection of Housing; 6: Work, Welfare, and Other Income Sources; 7: Intergenerational Patterns of Poverty and Broken Families; 8: Rearing Children for Independence and Achievement; 9: Training for Educational Achievement; 10: Conclusions