Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties

by Sarah Halpern-Meekin

Book Overview

How low-income people cope with the emotional dimensions of poverty

Could a lack of close, meaningful social ties be a public--rather than just a private--problem? In Social Poverty, Sarah Halpern-Meekin provides a much-needed window into the nature of social ties among low-income, unmarried parents, highlighting their often-ignored forms of hardship. Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-one couples, collected during their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479816892
• ISBN13: 9781479816897
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"