ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READING
Mary Jo Bane,
Here to Stay: American Families in the Twentieth Century,
New York: Basic Books, 1976
Alfred J.Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman,
Social Services in International Perspective,
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1977
Alfred J.Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman,
Family Policy: Government and Families in Fourteen Countries,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1978
Kenneth Keniston,
All Our Children,
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977
Robert Moroney,
The Family and the State,
New York: Longmans, 1976
Victor R. Fuchs,
Women's Quest for Economic Equality,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,1988
Sylvia Ann Hewlett,
When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting our Children,
New York: Basic Books, 1992,
Vance Packard,
Our Endangered Children: Growing Up in a Changing World,
New York: Little, Brown, 1983
Penelope Leach,
Children First: What Our Society Must Do And Is Not Doing For Our Children Today,
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1994
Richard Louv,
Childhood's Future,
New York: Anchor Books, 1992
Richard Louv,
America II,
Los Angeles: J.P.Tarcher, 1983
Philip Alston, ed.,
The Best Interests of the Child: Reconciling Culture & Human Rights,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
Sylvia Ann Hewlett,
Child Neglect In Rich Nations,
New York: UNICEF 1993
UNICEF,
State of the World's Children: 1992,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992
UNICEF,
The State of the World's Children:1994,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
UNICEF,
Early Childhood Development: The Challenge and the Opportunity,
New York: UNICEF, 1993
Children and Development in the 1990s: A UNICEF Sourcebook, New York: UNICEF, 1990
Donald J. Hernandez
America’s Children: Resources from Family, Government, and the Economy,
New York: Russell Sage, 1993
Vance Packard,
Our Endangered Children: Growing Up in a Changing World,
New York: Little, Brown, 1983
Kristin Moore,
Facts at a Glance,
Washington, DC: Child Trends, 1991
Daniel Patric Moynihan,
Family and Nation,
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986
William Bennett,
Our Children and Our Country,
New York: Simon & Shuster, 1988
Frank Hobbs and Laura Lippman,
Children’s Well-Being: An International Comparison,
Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of Census, 1990
David A. Hamburg, M.D.,
Today’s Children: Creating a Future For a Generation in Crisis,
New York: Times Books, 1992
Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Michaele Weissman,
Deadly Consequences,
New York: Harper Collins, 1991
The Nation’s Investment in Children,
Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund, 1990
Five Million Children: A Statistical Profile of Our Poorest Young Citizens,
New York: National Center for Children in Poverty: Columbia University:
School of Public Health, 1990
W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson,
Broken Promises: How Americans Fail Their Children,
New York: Basic Books, 1982
Five Million Children: A Statistical Profile of Our Poorest Young Citizens,
New York: National Center for Children in Poverty: School of Public Health:
Columbia University, 1990
Duncan Lindsey,
The Welfare of Children,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
Alfred J.Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman,
Child Care, Family Benefits and Working Parents,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980
Rosabeth Moss Kanter,
Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Agenda for Research and Policy,
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1977
Juanita M. Kreps,
Women and the American Economy,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976
Mitchell Meyer,
Women and Employee Benefits,
New York: The Conference Board, 1978
Juliet B. Schor,
The Overworked American: The Unexpected
Decline of Leisure,
New York: Basic Books, 1992
Hilda Scott,
Working Your Way to the Bottom,
Boston, MA: Pandora Press, 1984.
Teresa Amott,
Caught in the Crisis: Women and the U.S. Economy Today,
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993
Ruth Sidel,
Urban Survival: The World of Working Class Women,
Boston: Beacon Press, 1978
Andre Aelion Brooks,
Children of Fast-Track Parents
New York: Viking Penguin, 1989
Clifford M. Johnson, Andrew M. Sum, and James D. Weill,
Vanishing Dreams: The Growing Economic Plight of America’s Young Families,
Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund, 1988
Greg J. Duncan,
Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty: The Changing Economic Fortunes of American Workers and Families,
Ann Arbor, MI: Survey Research Center; Institute for Social Research; University of Michigan, 1984
Sar A. Levitan and Isaac Shapiro,
Working But Poor: America’s Contradiction,
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987
John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy,
The Forgotten Americans: Thirty Million Working Poor in the Land of Opportunity,
New York: Norton, 1993
Lester C. Thurow,
Declining American Incomes and Living Standards,
New York: Economic Policy Institute, 1987
Lawrence R. Mishel,
The State of Working America,
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993
Deborah Both and Barbara Zang,
The Working Poor in America: A Sourcebook for Journalists,
Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1990
Micael Harrington,
The New American Poverty,
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984
Estimating the Effects of Economic Change on National Health and Social Well-Being,
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984
Mary Jo Bane,
The Nation's Families, 1960-1990,
Boston: Auburn House, 1980
Diane E. Eyer,
Motherguilt: How Our Culture Blames Mothers for What's Wrong With,
Society,
New York: Times Books/Random House, 1996
Lynn M. Casper,
Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Fall 1991
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994
Selma H. Fraiberg,
Every Child’s Birthright: In Defense of Mothering,
New York: Basic Books, 1977
Andrew J. Cherlin, ed.,
The Changing American Family and Public Policy,
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1988
Marian Wright Edelman,
The Measure of Our Success,
Boston: Beacon Press, 1992
James Garbarino,
Children and Families In the Social Environment,
New York: Aldine Publishing Co., 1992
Marian Wright Edelman,
Families In Peril: An Agenda for Social Change,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987
Marie Winn,
The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children and the Family,
New York: Viking Penguin, 1985
Ruth Sidel,
On Her Own: Growing Up in the Shadow of the American Dream,
New York: Viking, 1990
Manuel Carballo and Mary Jo Bane,
The State of the Poor in the '80s.,
Boston: Auburn House, 1984
William Julius Wilson,
The Truly Disadvantaged,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk, eds.,
Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America,
New York,: Russell Sage, 1993
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Edward N.Wolff, eds.,
Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century,
New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1993
Patricia Ruggles,
Drawing the Line: Alternative Poverty Measures and Their Implications for Public Policy,
Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1990
Robert Greenstein,
Attempts to Dismiss the Census Poverty Data,
Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1993
U.S. Census Bureau,
Poverty in the United States: 1992,
Current Population Reports,
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1993
David Elwood,
Divide and Conquer: Reponsive Security for America’s Poor,
New York: Ford Foundation, 1987
David Elwood,
Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family,
New York: Basic Books, 1988
Frank Levy,
Dollars and Dreams: The Changing American Income Distribution,
New York: Russell Sage, 1987
Judith A. Chafel,
Child Poverty and Public Policy,
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1993
Greg J. Duncan,
Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty: The Changing Economic Fortunes of American Workers and Families,
Ann Arbor, MI: University of michigan, Survey Research Center, 1984
Jonathan Kozol,
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation,
New York: Crown Books, 1995
Wasting America's Future: The Children's Defense Fund's Report on the Costs of Child Poverty,
Boston: Beacon Press, 1994
Olivia Ann Golden,
Poor Children And Welfare Reform,
Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1992
Michael G. McGeary and Laurence E. Lynn,
Urban Change and Poverty,
Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1988
Stephen Shames,
Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America,
Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund, 1991
Leonard Beeghley,
Living Poorly in America,
New York: Praeger, 1983
George F. Gilder,
Wealth and Poverty,
New York: Basic Books, 1981
Aletha C. Houston, ed., R>
Clifford M. Johnson, L. Miranda, A. Sherman, and J.D. Weill,
John T. Cook and Larry J. Brown,
Frank Levy,
Lisa K. Mihaly,
Jonathan Kozol,
Ralph DaCosta Nunez,
Laura DeKoven Waxman,
Overview of Entitlement Programs: 1993 Green Book
Food Research and Action Center,
United States Conference of Mayors,
Lisa Klee Mihaly,
John R. Hall, HR>
Judith Berck,
Nancy A. Boxill,
Julee H. Kryder-Coe, Lester M. Salamon, and Janice M. Molner, eds.,
Richard H. Ropers,
James L. Brown and H.F. Pizer,
Tracy L. Kaufman,
Edward B. Lazere,
Tracy L. Kaufman,
Yvonne M. Vissing,
Peter Rossi,
Marjorie Hope and James Young,
George Thorman,
A Status Report on Children in America’s Cities: A 52-city Survey,
Ralph DaCosta Nunez,
Barbara A. Arrighi,
Paul G. Shane,
Mary Ann Glendon,
Kristin Luker,
Losing Generations: Adolescents in High-Risk Settings,
Judith Musick,
Kristin A. Moore,
The Health of America’s Children: Maternal and Child Health Data Book,
Valerie Polakow,
Paulo Friere,
Early Childhood Education: What Are the Costs of High-Quality Programs?
Jeannie Oakes,
Jonathan Kozol,
Jonathan Kozol,
Cathy Spatz Widom,
Geoffrey Canada,
James Garbarino,
Children in Poverty: Child Development and Public Policy,
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991
Child Poverty in America,
Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund, 1991
Two Americas: Alternative Futures for Child Povery in the U.S.,
Medford, MA: Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutrition Policy, 1993
Dollars and Dreams: The Changing American Income Distribution,
New York: Russell Sage Foundation/Basic Books, 1987
Homeless Families: Failed Policies and Young Victims,
Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund, 1991.
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America,
New York: Crown Publishers, 1988
Hopes, Dreams, and Promise: The Future of Homeless Children in America,
New York: Institute for Children in Poverty; Homes for the Homeless, 1994.
A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 1994.
Washingron, DC: United States Conference of Mayors, 1994
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993
Community Childhood Identification Project: A Survey of Childhood Hunger in the United States,
Washington, DC: Food Research and Action Center, 1991
A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America’s Cities: 1993, A 26-City Survey,
Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors, 1993
Homeless Families: Failed Policies and Young Victims,
Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund, 1991
U.S. Home Heating Fire Patterns and Trends Through 1990,
Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association, 1992
No Place to Be: Voices of Homeless Children,
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992
Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters,
New York: Haworth Press, 1990
Homeless Children and Youth: A New American Dillemma,
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991
The Invisible Homeless: A New Urban Ecology,
New York: Insight Books, Human Sciences Press, 1988
Living Hungry in America,
New York: MacMillan, 1987
Housing America’s Future: Children at Risk,
Washington, DC: National Low Income Housing Coalition, 1996
In Short Supply: The Growing Affordable Housing Gap,
Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1995
Out of Reach: Can America Pay the Rent?
Washington, DC: National Low Income Housing Coalition, 1996
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small Town America,
Lexington, KT: University Press of Kentucky, 1996
Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989
The Faces of Homelessness,
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books,, 1986
Homeless Families,
Springfield, IL: C.C.Thomas, 1988
Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors, 1988
The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America,
New York: Insight Books, 1996
America’s Shame: Women and Children in Shelter and the Degradation of Family Roles,
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997
What About America’s Homeless Children?: Hide and Seek,
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996
Abortion and Divorce in Western Law: American Failures, European Challenges,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987
Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996
Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1993
Young, Poor, and Pregnant: The Psychology of Teenage Motherhood,
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993
Teenage Motherhood: Social and Economic Consequences,
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1979
Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund, 1992
Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America,
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993
Pedagogy of the Oppressed,
New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1989
Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office, 1990
Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools,
New York: Crown Books, 1991
Illiterate America,
New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985
The Cycle of Violence,
National Institute of Justice Research in Brief,
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 1992
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America,
Boston: Beacon Press, 1995
Children in Danger: Coping With Consequences of Community Violence,
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993
