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America's Shame
Women and Children in Shelter and the Degradation of Family Roles
Barbara A. Arrighi
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America's Shame

Women and Children in Shelter and the Degradation of Family Roles

Barbara A. Arrighi Barbara A. Arrighi

July 1997

Praeger

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While the American family is held to be sacrosanct, societal responses to struggling families in deep poverty amount to a betrayal of children, whose needs are unmet by their primary caretakers and are further denied by public policymakers.

Rejecting those who urge a bootstrap approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom either the boots or the straps are missing. This book further offers solutions in consciousness raising, community collaboration, and informed, responsible public policy. The book is a critique of a system that purports to serve yet sometimes impedes the welfare of those who are in need of the basic elements for survival, including affordable shelter. It analyzes the structural factors of poverty and the social psychological costs of being poor and lacking a home. Utilizing interview findings from families who have lived in a shelter in northern Kentucky and from staff members, the book examines the degrading effects of shelter life on women's self-respect and children's development. Rather than an examination of individual pathologies leading to lack of shelter, it centers on women and children living in shelters and offers a sociological study of poverty and the family.
Preface
Descent to Shelter: Systemic Factors Leading to Shelter
How a Diverse Population Grew While Housing Decreased
Family Values and Other Myths and Realities about Families
The Social Psychological Experience of Poverty and Shelter Life
Shelter Life and Women's Self-Concept
Shelter Life and Its Effects of Children's Development
Solutions: Some Old, Some New
A Solution for Shrinking Funds: Mandated Community Collaboration
Consciousness Raising: An Old Solution with a New Twist
Recommendations
Epilogue: Connecting Private Troubles with Public Issues: A Little Sociological Imagination Would Help
Bibliography
Index




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