Parenting in Public: Family Shelter and Public Assistance

by Donna Haig Friedman and Rosa Clark

Book Overview

When parents must rely on public assistance and family shelters to provide for their children's most basic needs, they lose autonomy. Within a system of public assistance that already stigmatizes and isolates its beneficiaries, their family lives become subject to public scrutiny and criticism. They are parenting in public.

This book is an in-depth examination of the realities of life for parents and their children in family shelters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231111053
• ISBN13: 9780231111058
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher