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1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
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1. Introduction; How do children view poverty?; Why child poverty?; The state of child poverty; So, what is (child) poverty?; Income and material deprivation; Income inequality; What causes child poverty?; Consequences of child poverty; The children at greater risk of poverty; The rest of the book -- 2. Context; Introduction; Profile of child poverty internationally; Profile of child poverty in the UK and its four nations; Causes of child poverty; Poverty is dynamic; Children at increased risk of poverty; Money; Government policies that affect child poverty -- 3. Family; Introduction; What is family?; Pathologising low-income families; To whom are low-income families being compared?; Parents or mothers?; Living in a family on a low income; The cycle of advantage; What it all means for children; Misunderstandings of child poverty; Beyond individualised accounts of poverty; Impacts of poverty on children and families -- 4. Lone parenthood; Introduction; Lone parents are not a homogenous group; Lone mothers and poverty; Child wellbeing in lone-mother families; The stigma of lone motherhood; Lone mothers and employment; Non-resident fathers; Targeting policies at lone mothers; Childcare; Child maintenance; The impacts of child maintenance; (Non- ) compliance with child maintenance; Flipping the thinking -- 5. Education; Introduction; School costs; Masking of poverty; Poor children's experiences of education; Poverty of aspirations; Poor parents' experiences of education; Teachers' (mis)understandings; Policy; Flipping the thinking -- 6. In and out of work; Introduction; The dominant status and values attached to employment; The desire to work; The role of employment in (not) lifting families out of poverty (in-work poverty) |
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Youth employment/unemployment; How policy interacts with employment; Flipping the thinking -- 7. Health; Introduction; Health inequalities; Child health and poverty; Children's mental health and poverty; Protective factors for child mental health and poverty; Parental mental health and poverty; The consequences on children of living with a parent with a mental health condition; Stigma; Protective factors for the children of parents with poor mental health; Flipping the thinking -- 8. Ethnicity and disability; Introduction; Ethnicity; Ethnicity and education; Ethnicity and poverty; Ethnicity and employment; Rates of employment; Rates of unemployment; Profile of employment; Ethnicity and discrimination; Young BME and (un/under)employment; Disability; Disability and poverty rates; Profile of childhood disability; Disabled children's views; Changes for disabled people in the UK; Impacts on disabled adults; Flipping the thinking -- 9. Adversity and poverty; Introduction; Young carers; Poverty and young carers; The effects of caring on young carers; Young carers as a hidden population; Policy and service support for young carers; Looked-after children; Looked-after children and poverty; Looked-after children's outcomes; Refugee and asylum-seeking children; Refugee and asylum-seeking children and poverty; Refugee and asylum-seeking children and outcomes; Refugee and asylum-seeking children and protective factors; Adverse childhood experiences; The problem with the original ACE study; ACEs and poverty; Severe multiple deprivations in adulthood; Flipping the thinking on ACEs -- 10. Conclusions -- Notes -- References - Index. |
| ISBN |
1447334671 (electronic book) |
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9781447334675 (electronic book) |
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144733468X |
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9781447334682 |
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9781447334668 |
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1447334663 |
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9781447334699 (ebook) |
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1447334698 |
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