Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, Volume I

Resource Type

Book - Parent

Description

"Volume I of a two-volume set offering research and analysis from experts in the fields of child development, social psychology, sociology, and economics. Reports on national and city-based empirical evidence concerning the relationship between children and community, looking at how neighborhood poverty's effects vary with race, gender, and age, with parenting techniques and a family's degree of community involvement also serving as mitigating factors" Publisher (barnesandnoble.com)

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

Adulthood (22+)

Languages

English

ISBN

0871541882

Authors

Greg J. Duncan , Jeanne Brooks-Gunn , Lawrence J. Albers MD

Publication

2000 Russell Sage Foundation

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