Family Futures

Download or read book Family Futures written by Power, Anne and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family futures is about family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems where surrounding conditions make bringing up children more difficult and family life is more fraught and limited. This book is based on a longitudinal study of morethan 200 families interviewed annually over the last decade. It answers three important questions in the works of families themselves: What challenges face families in poor areas? How are the challenges being met? Have government efforts helped or hindered progress over the past decade?--From cover, [p]. 4.