America's Shame: Women and Children in Shelter and the Degradation of Family Roles
- ISBN-10
- 0275957322
- ISBN-13
- 9780275957322
- Category
- Political science (General)
- Pages
- 138
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Barbara A. Arrighi
Description
While the American family is held to be sacrosanct, societal responses to struggling families in deep poverty amount to a betrayal of children, whose needs are unmet by their primary caretakers and are further denied by public policymakers.
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