Raising children : emerging needs, modern risks, and social responses / edited by Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert.

Contributor Berrick, Jill Duerr.

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Descriptionviii, 266 p. : charts ; 24 cm.

Note:The past is not a foreign country : the historical education of policy / Paula Fass -- From private to public : paying grandparents as caretakers / Jill Duerr Berrick -- Supporting fathers' Engagement with their kids / Phil Cowan... [et al.] -- Can women have careers and babies too? / Mary Ann Mason -- Motherhood, work and family policy / Neil Gilbert -- Child support : how much is just right? / Ira Ellman and Tara Ellman -- Framing public interventions with respect to children as parent-empowering / Stephen D. Sugarman -- Childhood ADHD : biological reality or social construction, with policy implications / Stephen P. Hinshaw -- Do immigrant children have a fair chance? / Sylvia Guendelman and Kate Cosby -- Non-academic needs of students : how can schools intervene? / Susan Stone -- Families and schools raising children : the inequitable effects of family background on schooling outcomes / W. Norton Grubb.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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