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Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe physical abuse. But as Tina Lee shows in Catching a Case, most child welfare cases revolve around often ill-founded charges of neglect, and the parents swept into the system are generally struggling but loving, fighting to raise their children in the face of crushing poverty, violent crime, poor housing, lack of childcare, and failing schools. Lee explored the child welfare system in New York City, observing family courts, interviewing parents and following them through the system, asking caseworkers for descriptions of their work and their decision-making processes, and discussing cases with attorneys on all sides. What she discovered about the system is troubling. Lee reveals that, in the face of draconian budget cuts and a political climate that blames the poor for their own poverty, child welfare practices have become punitive, focused on removing children from their families and on parental compliance with rules. Rather than provide needed help for families, case workers often hold parents to standards almost impossible for working-class and poor parents to meet. For instance, parents can be accused of neglect for providing inadequate childcare or housing even when they cannot afford anything better. In many cases, child welfare exacerbates family problems and sometimes drives parents further into poverty while the family court system does little to protect their rights. Catching a Case is a much-needed wake-up call to improve the child welfare system, and to offer more comprehensive social services that will allow all children to thrive.

Discrimination --- Family services --- Social service --- Low-income parents --- Child abuse --- Child welfare

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Anna Tarrant's revealing research explores the dynamics and diversity of men's caring roles in low-income households at various stages of their lives. It sheds light on men's participation in care and the factors that affect it, including class, culture, work and the impact of austerity.

Poor men --- Low-income fathers. --- Poor families. --- Family relationships. --- Families --- Poor fathers --- Fathers --- Low-income parents --- Men --- Economic conditions

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The Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation was launched in 2003 to test the effectiveness of a skills-based relationship education program designed to help low-income married couples strengthen their relationships and, in turn, to support more stable and more nurturing home environments and more positive outcomes for parents and their children. The SHM program is a voluntary, yearlong, relationship and marriage education program for low-income, married couples who have children or are expecting a child. The program provides group workshops based on structured curricula; supplemental acti

Parenting --- Low-income parents --- Couples --- Interpersonal relations --- Poor parents --- Parents --- Parent behavior --- Parental behavior in humans --- Child rearing --- Parent and child --- Parenthood --- Study and teaching --- Evaluation. --- Services for

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Family policy --- Parenting --- Family social work --- Low-income parents --- Politique familiale --- Rôle parental --- Service social familial --- Parents à faible revenu --- Government policy --- Politique gouvernementale --- France --- France --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales

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With a unique focus on the effects of poverty on parenting in Britain, this book explores what professionals and policy makers can do to support families living in poverty. The authors examine community-level poverty and its relationship to family and individual problems such as low income, poor mental health and child behavioural difficulties.

Family life surveys --- Family social work --- Low-income parents --- Poor families --- Stress (Psychology) --- Emotional stress --- Mental stress --- Psychological stress --- Tension (Psychology) --- Mental health --- Psychology --- Diathesis-stress model (Psychology) --- Life change events --- Type A behavior --- Families --- Poor parents --- Parents --- Social surveys --- Social networks