Research Catalog

Title

Mothers in poverty; a study of fatherless families.

Author

Kriesberg, Louis

Publication

Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co. [1970]

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Details

Description

x, 356 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

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. -- Google books

Subject

• Unmarried mothers > New York (State) > Syracuse
• Paternal deprivation
• Poor > New York (State) > Syracuse
• Family
• Mother-Child Relations
• Poverty
• Social Conditions
• Syracuse (N.Y.) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- On explaining the life style of the poor -- Conditions and processes: Some Hypotheses -- Research Design and Characteristics of familities in the study -- Enclaves of poverty -- The Selection of housing -- Work, Welfare, and Other Income Sources -- Intergenerational patterns of poverty and broken families -- Rearing children for independence and achievement -- Training for educational achievement -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. Sampling and Data collection procedures for cross-sectional survey -- Appendix B. Sampling and data collection procedures for panel survey -- Index

LCCN

^^^79090079^//r84

OCLC

• 72108
• SCSB-10766684

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library