Description

The purpose of the book is to present a collection of articles related to families and poverty from a broad range of disciplines. In most cases, the chapters represent the state-of-the-art summaries of research related to couple, marital, and family influences on poverty. Others represent reviews of issues related to public policy or the conduct of funded research related to families and poverty. Authors represent a diverse group of disciplines including: business, child development, family studies, marriage and family therapy, nursing, political science, population studies, psychology, public policy, social work and sociology.