Good Parents or Good Workers?

1. Introduction
Jill Duerr Berrick, Bruce Fuller

Section I. The Good Worker/The Good Mother

2. Barriers to Self-Sufficiency: Are Wages and Welfare Enough?
Laura Lein

3. “The Long Road to Quality Day Care and Work”:Women Define Pathways
Desiree French, Bruce Fuller, James Mensing

4. Where Poverty and Parenting Intersect: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Caregiving
Laura Frame

Section II. Policy Effects on Poor Children

5. Effects on Children as Parents Transition from Welfare to Employment
Pamela A. Morris, Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London

6. Parenting in a Changing Welfare Policy Landscape: What Does It Mean for Young Children?
Karie Frasch

Section III. The Good Father

7. How Mothers See Fathers
Allison Zippay, Anu Rangarajan

8. Deadbeat Dads or Fatherhood in Poverty?
David J. Pate

9. Implications for Families, Children, and Policy Makers
Jill Duerr Berrick, Bruce Fuller

Keywords: Social Sciences, Education Policy, Learning & Instruction, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics, Social Work