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Poor kids in a rich country : America's children in comparative perspective

Tác giả: Lee Rainwater, Timothy M Smeeding

Part 1: Child poverty and inequality at the end of the twentieth century. Part 2: Choice and method in research on poverty.

Women have always worked : an historical overview

Tác giả: Alice Kessler-Harris

Divided into five thematic sections, the book illustrates different aspects of women's paid and unpaid work, and shows how their roles have changed over the past two hundred years. Kessler-Harris weaves together the experiences of poor, wealthy, middle-class women; trade union, professional and ...

The well-being of the elderly in Asia : a four-country comparative study

Tác giả: Albert I. Hermalin

Each major analytic chapter looks at a key dimension of well-being--economic, physical and mental health, work and leisure--and how these are affected by the familial and social support arrangements, as well as age, gender, education, and urban-rural residence.

Nyansongo : a gusii community in Kenya

Tác giả: Robert Alan LeVine, Barbara B Lloyd

Divergent realities : the emotional lives of mothers, fathers, and adolescents

Tác giả: Reed Larson, Maryse Heather Richards

Family dysfunction has been blamed on many causes the absence of fathers, mothers working outside the home, lack of money or social supports. But, argue the authors of this original and provocative book, it is often presence rather than absence that lies at the heart of troubled families. In fact, ...