Children in Poverty: Child Development and Public Policy.

Abstract

Preface 1. Children in poverty: developmental and policy issues 2. The economic environment of childhood 3. The role of mother-only families in reproducing poverty 4. The association between adolescent parenting and childhood poverty 5. The strain of living poor: parenting, social support, and child mental health 6. The health of poor children: problems and programs 7. With a little help: children in poverty and child care 8. Poverty, early childhood education, and academic competence: the Abecedarian experiment 9. Educational acceleration for at-risk students 10. Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions for children in poverty 11. Effective progras for children growing up in concentrated poverty 12. Antecedents, consequences, and possible solutions for poverty among children Author index Subject index.