System kids :: adolescent mothers and the politics of regulation /

This title explores the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on scholarship as well as her experience as a welfare programme manager, Lauren Silver...

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1. Verfasser: Silver, Lauren J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
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Zusammenfassung:This title explores the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on scholarship as well as her experience as a welfare programme manager, Lauren Silver demonstrates how social welfare 'silos' construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing unforgiving policies and imposing demands on women the system was intended to help.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 198 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.
ISBN:9781469622613
1469622610
9781469622606
1469622602
9798890846358

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