Keeping Women and Children Last Revised
In Keeping Women and Children Last, Ruth Sidel shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare, and how politicians have scapegoated and stigmatized female-headed families both as a method of social control and to divert attention from the severe problems that Americans face. She reveals the real victims of poverty--the millions of children who suffer from societal neglect, inferior education, inadequate health care, hunger, and homelessness. In this new edition, focusing on the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Sidel reevaluates our social policy, assessing the impact of the "end of welfare as we know it" on America's poor, especially its women and children.
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Keeping Women and Children Last Revised
In Keeping Women and Children Last, Ruth Sidel shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare, and how politicians have scapegoated and stigmatized female-headed families both as a method of social control and to divert attention from the severe problems that Americans face. She reveals the real victims of poverty--the millions of children who suffer from societal neglect, inferior education, inadequate health care, hunger, and homelessness. In this new edition, focusing on the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Sidel reevaluates our social policy, assessing the impact of the "end of welfare as we know it" on America's poor, especially its women and children.
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Keeping Women and Children Last Revised

Keeping Women and Children Last Revised

by Ruth Sidel
Keeping Women and Children Last Revised

Keeping Women and Children Last Revised

by Ruth Sidel

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In Keeping Women and Children Last, Ruth Sidel shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare, and how politicians have scapegoated and stigmatized female-headed families both as a method of social control and to divert attention from the severe problems that Americans face. She reveals the real victims of poverty--the millions of children who suffer from societal neglect, inferior education, inadequate health care, hunger, and homelessness. In this new edition, focusing on the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Sidel reevaluates our social policy, assessing the impact of the "end of welfare as we know it" on America's poor, especially its women and children.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101522813
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/01/1998
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 317 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Keeping Women and Children Last - Ruth Sidel Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Enemy Within
Chapter 2: The Assault on the Female-Headed Family
Chapter 3: Who Are the Poor?
Chapter 4: Targeting Welfare Recipients
Chapter 5: Teenage Mothers: Casualties of a Limited Future
Chapter 6: Poor Children: The Walking Wounded
Chapter 7: A Return to Caring
Epilogue: Abandoning the Poor
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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