Mothers in Poverty: A Study of Fatherless Families

by Louis Kriesberg

Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages themselves, that the poor seek out public housing and public assistance because they prefer such dependency, or that husbandless mothers all have lower...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202308707
• ISBN13: 9780202308708
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"