Re: ethnographic studies of parenting in poverty

[Bill Meezan <meezan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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>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
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>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/
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>also Academic Co-Director, the Children's Centre,
>University of Dublin - Trinity College
>http://www.tcd.ie/Childrens_Centre/
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I would suggest Jill Berrick's Faces of Poverty.

Hope it helps.

Bill Meezan>
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William Meezan, DSW
John Milner Professor of Social Work
University of Southern California 
School of Social Work
(213) 740-5883 (phone)
(213) 740-0789 (fax)