Lives on the Line American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet
- List Price: $21.99
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Perseus Books Group
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Description:
Melding sophisticated demographic analysis with affecting personal profiles, this book paints a vivid picture of life as it is lived by the more than thirteen million American children growing up below the poverty line. It shatters many commonly held stereotypes by showing, through analysis of census data, just which American children are most likely to be poor, and by taking readers down the paths that lead families into poverty -- paths too often littered with childhood abuse, parental loss, long-term battering by a spouse, teen pregnancy, and drug abuse.
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