Handbook of Families & Poverty by D. Russell Crane (Editor), Tim B. Heaton (Editor)

Preface     viii
Introduction   D. Russell Crane   Tim B. Heaton     x
What Welfare Can and Cannot Do
Innovation in Social Policy: Evaluating State Efforts to Reform Welfare, Promote Work, and Help Low-Income Families   Gary Bryner   Ryan Martin     2
Social Policy and Marriage   Lawrence M. Head     22
Working Families Should Not Be Poor: The New Hope Program   Anjali E. Gupta   Jessica Thornton Walker   Aletha C. Huston     32
Who Will Care When Parents Can't? An Overview of Trends in Kinship Care With a Focus on the Child-Only Provisions of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program   Kevin D. Blair   David B. Taylor     48
Poverty Among Diverse Populations and Settings
Understanding the Processes Through Which Economic Hardship Influences Families and Children   Rand D. Conger   Katherine Jewsbury Conger     64
Early Childhood Education and Care: An Opportunity to Enhance the Lives of Poor Children   Anna D. Johnson   Kate Tarrant   Jeanne Brooks-Gunn     82
Appalachian Families and Poverty: Historical Issues and Contemporary Economic Trends   W. Sean Newsome   Kevin R. Bush   Charles B. Hennon   Gary W. Peterson   Stephan M. Wilson     104
Poverty and Economic Polarization Among Children in Racial Minority and Immigrant Families   Daniel T. Lichter   Zhenchao Qian   Martha L. Crowley     119
Processes of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Poor Families   Angela Abela   Carmel Tabone     144
Mexican American Families and Poverty   Scott Coltrane   Ross D. Parke   Thomas J. Schofield   Shigueru J. Tsuha   Michael Chavez   Shoon Lio     161
Mexican Immigrant Childbearing Women: Social Support and Perinatal Outcomes   Lynn Clark Callister   Ana Birkhead     181
Food Insecurity and Provisioning: Chronic Challenges Faced by Families Living in Poverty on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation   Erin Feinauer Whiting   Carol J. Ward     198
How Economically Disadvantaged Are American Elderly Women? Gender Differences in Economic Well-Being in Old Age   Martha N. Ozawa   Hong-Sik Yoon     220
The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Community Functioning of People With Serious Mental Illness and Their Families   Eric D. Johnson     239
Addiction and Medicaid: A Prairie Sighting of Califano's "Elephant in the Living Room of American Society" and State Budgets   Harvey H. Hillin     254
Incarceration, Poverty, and Families    Stephen J. Bahr     269
Children's Time Use and Parental Involvement in Low-Income Families   W. Jean Yeung   Rebecca Glauber     288
Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes for Children in Poverty   R. Gabriela Barajas   Nina Philipsen   Jeanne Brooks-Gunn     311
Challenging Social Inequalities in Health   Michael Murray   David F. Marks     334
Intervention and Education for Working with Poor Families
Giving Head Start a Fresh Start   Douglas J. Besharov   Caeli A. Higney     350
Grandparents: A Family Resource?   Lynda Clarke     365
Poor Fathers' Involvement in the Lives of Their Children   Melvin N. Wilson     381
The Health-Care Safety Net for Mexican-Origin Families   Ronald J. Angel   Jacqueline L. Angel   Laura Lein     395
Federal Policy Efforts to Improve Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Families by Supporting Marriage and Family Stability   M. Robin Dion   Alan J. Hawkins     411
Microenterprise: Building Well-Being Among Poor U.S. Families   Warner P. Woodworth     426
Working With Families in Poverty: Toward a Multilevel, Population-Based Approach   Matthew R. Sanders   William Bor      442
Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty   Robert E. Rector   Kirk A. Johnson   Patrick F. Fagan     457
Index     471
About the Editors     483
About the Contributors     484