Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America

by Valerie Polakow

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226671836
• ISBN13: 9780226671833
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"