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Diminished Rights

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Description for Diminished Rights paperback. This is a qualitative study that documents the daily lives of vulnerable lone mothers and their children in Denmark. Loss of rights, gender and ethnic inequality, and family violence all emerge as key themes with international implications. Policy and practice recommendations are made with wide-ranging applications for an international audience. Num Pages: 204 pages, 5tabs. BIC Classification: 1DND; JFF; JFSP1; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
Denmark is one of the most progressive countries in terms of family support policies. This book, however, reveals a backdrop of diminished rights, inequalities and family violence in the lives of vulnerable lone mothers. If this is the case in Denmark, what is the situation in other countries, including the USA, the UK and other EU member states? Diminished rights is a unique qualitative study that documents the daily lives of vulnerable lone mothers and their children in Denmark. Loss of rights, gender and ethnic inequality, and family violence all emerge as key themes, with far-reaching international implications. The book: ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861342775
SKU
V9781861342775
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About Valerie Hal
Valerie Polakow is Professor of Educational Psychology and Early Childhood Studies at Eastern Michigan University, USA. She was a Fulbright scholar in Denmark in 1995, and has written extensively about women and children in poverty, and welfare and child care policies. Therese Halskov is Associate Professor at the Danish National School of Social Work, Copenhagen. She has conducted research on ... Read more

Reviews for Diminished Rights
"Drawing comparisons with welfare reform rhetoric and realities in the UK and USA, this powerful book makes a critical contribution to cross-national social policy and child and family literature." Beth Swadener, Early Childhood Education, Kent State University, USA "This compelling volume contributes important voices and richly contextualised narrative data to a growing cross-national literature on lone mothers, children and the ... Read more

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