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      The Erosion of Childhood

      Valerie Polakow Suransky

      How can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the loss of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow…

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

      Valerie Polakow

      Lives on the Edge offers a penetrating, deeply disturbing look into the other America inhabited by single mothers and their children. Its powerful and moving portraits force us to confront…

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      International Perspectives on Homelessness

      Students can use this ready reference to compare and contrast homelessness populations, analyze the ways in which various countries approach this issue, and to evaluate what is precluding and encouraging…

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      Poverty and Schooling: A Special Issue of Educational Studies

      This special issue of Educational Studies explores poverty and schooling. Divided into two sections of articles and book reviews, the papers address topics such as: quality in alternative certification; children…

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      Shut Out: Low Income Mothers and Higher Education in Post-Welfare America

      Documents the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers in poverty confront in the current welfare climate.

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