Product Description: Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although government programs are available for children, adults without private health care coverage have few options...read more

Examines the realities of welfare dependency and the true cost of subsistence living (view table of contents)

Looks at the reasons people become parents, shows how children change the lives of adults, and discusses the joys and frustrations of parenthood

Product Description: Authorities explore the implications of social networks for women and men in several significant social contexts, including social support systems during the parenting years, and those for the elderly, black families, and poor families.