Valerie Polakow, Therese Halskov, Per Schultz Jørgensen

Broschiertes Buch

Diminished rights

Danish lone mother families in international context

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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 vulnerable populations in the EU and authored several books on social work. Per Schultz Jørgensen is former Professor of Social Psychology at the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies, Copenhagen. He served as Chairman of the National Council for Children in Denmark from 1998-2001.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9781861342775
• ISBN-10: 1861342772
• Artikelnr.: 24979808