Motherhood Poverty And The Wic Program In Urban America
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Author | : Suzanne Morrissey |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2015-12-24 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0739189344 |
The study presented here is one of urban poverty, household survival, and social institutions that both enable and control the decision-making of poor women in America. First and foremost, it is about a public health program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known more commonly as WIC, and how the institution re-inscribes persistent stereotypes of the urban poor on the women it eagerly wishes to serve. Despite encountering opposition and occasionally humiliation at the hands of those chosen to serve, many low-income women throughout the United States and Puerto Rico return to WIC every month because it represents a rite of passage that characterizes pregnancy. Enrolling in WIC prenatally signifies to others the importance of providing for one’s family in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Yet whether women access WIC benefits or not, their lived realities include a painful and enduring connection between urban poverty and health inequalities, particularly inequalities leading to poor birth outcomes and infant mortality, as explored in this urban ethnography.
Author | : Catherine Tucker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1317311523 |
Counseling at the Beginning is a thorough, practice-based guide for counselors who serve the mental health needs of very young children and their families. Chapters based on current developmental psychology research prepare mental health, school, and addictions counselors to work with pregnant women and children under the age of 5. Discussion of topics such as brain development, self-regulation, trauma, prenatal alcohol and drug exposure, and toxic stress prepares providers to meet the needs of this growing area of practice. Concrete information about how and when to intervene, written by experts working in the field, is accompanied by lists of resources for further learning at the end of each chapter.
Author | : Yvette R. Harris, PhD |
Publisher | : Springer Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0826101046 |
"This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable foundation for further investigations. This nonpolemic book should be in all libraries, filling an unfortunate gap. Highly recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries This major new textbook introduces students to issues that have an impact on the lives of African American children but have typically been ignored (or inadequately discussed) in mainstream child development textbooks. The authors hope to familiarize students with a sampling of research that moves beyond a deficit view of the development of the African American child while stimulating critical thinking about future directions for research on African American children and their families. The book is designed to be student friendly--with each chapter presenting an overview of the material covered as well as an "Insider's Voice" (which offers a personal story or viewpoint about the issues discussed in the chapter). Each chapter goes on to feature a dialogue of current biological, environmental, constructivist, and cultural-contextual theories) as well as suggestions for additional reading, videos, websites, and questions to guide critical thinking.
Author | : Patricia La Caille John |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Rural poor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yvette R. Harris, PhD |
Publisher | : Springer Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2014-02-13 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0826110193 |
Author | : Larry Hajime Shinagawa |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761991281 |
A final chapter compares these groups on many of these topics, highlighting the variability of the American experience for members of different ethnic groups. Distilling thousands of pages of census documents and other statistical data on American racial and ethnic groups into easily understandable maps and charts, the Atlas highlights trends and conditions not otherwise observable, making it an ideal tool for scholars, students, and policy makers alike.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Income Security |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Income maintenance programs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marc S. Rodriguez |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781580461580 |
An in-depth look at trends in North American internal migration. This volume gathers established and new scholars working on North American immigration, transmigration, internal migration, and citizenship whose work analyzes the development of migrant and state-level institutions as well as migrant networks. With contemporary migration research most often focused on the development of transnational communities and the ways international migrants maintain relationships with their sending region that sustain the circularflow of people, ideas, and traditions across national boundaries it is useful to compare these to similar patterns evident within the terrain of internal migration. To date, however, international and internal migration studies have unfolded in relative isolation from one another with each operating within these distinct fields of expertise rather than across them. Although there has been some important linking, there has not been a recent major consideration of human migration that works across and within the various borders of the North American continent. Thus, the volume presents a variety of chapters that seek to consider human migration in comparative perspective across the internal/international divide. Marc S. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University; Donna R. Gabbaccia is the Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh; James R. Grossman is theVice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Contributors: Josef Barton, Wallace Best, Donna Gabbaccia, James Gregory, Tobias Higbie, Mae Ngai, Walter Nugent, Annelise Orleck, Kunal Parker, Kimberly Phillips, Bruno Ramirez, Marc Rodriguez Repositioning North American Migration History is a volume in Studies in Comparative History, sponsored by Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center forHistorical Studies.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Food relief |
ISBN | : |
Abstracts: These hearings discuss hunger in the United States and related nutritional issues. Topics include: USDA food assistance programs; USDA commodity distribution programs; and the needs of the hungry in the U.S. These proceedings present the views of many grassroots activists who work providing food to those in need.
Author | : Carol Camp Yeakey |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0739186388 |
Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 2 is devoted to the myriad issues involving urban health and the dynamics of urban communities and their neighborhoods. The editors define the ecology of urban living as the relationship and adjustment of humans to a highly dense, diverse, and complex environment. This approach examines the nexus between the distribution of human groups with reference to material resources and the consequential social, political, economic, and cultural patterns which evolve as a result of the sufficiency or insufficiency of those material resources. They emphasize the most vulnerable populations suffering during and after the recession in the United States and around the world, and the chapters examine traditional issues of housing and employment with respect to these communities.