Re: ethnographic studies of parenting in poverty

[popple@xxxxxxxxx]

I would recommend:
Jill Duerr Berrick, "Faces of Poverty; Portraits of Women and Children on
Welfare," New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Philip Popple, Director
School of Social Work
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D. wrote:

> I suggest the work of Frank Furstenberg;  Elijah Anderson; Linda Burton;
> and Robin Jarrett. There is also a volume edited by Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
> and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn on poverty and another edited by Brooks-Gunn et al.
> on neighborhoods and poverty. 
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> At 03:13 PM 1/20/98 GMT, you wrote:
> >I would appreciate any suggestions from list members about studies which
> >give in parents' own words some glimpse of the realities of parenting in
> >poverty. I am looking for leads to offer a research student.
> >
> >Many thanks
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> >Robbie Gilligan
> >Senior Lecturer in Social Work,  and
> >Head of Department
> >Department of Social Studies
> >University of Dublin - Trinity College
> >
> >email:          rgillign@tcd.ie
> >Snailmail:      Department of Social Studies,
> >                University of Dublin - Trinity College,Dublin 2, Ireland
> >Fax:            +353-1-671 2262
> >WWW:            http://www.tcd.ie/Social_Studies/People/Robbie_Gilligan/
> >
> >also Academic Co-Director, the Children's Centre,
> >University of Dublin - Trinity College
> >http://www.tcd.ie/Childrens_Centre/
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> Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D.
> Department of Anthropology
> Case Western Reserve University
> Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7125
> (216)368-2278  FAX (216)368-5334
>