Children in Jeopardy Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty?

Name: Children in Jeopardy Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty?
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ISBN: 9780300068924

ISBN-10: 0300068921

ISBN-13: 9780300068924

Edition: 1996

Authors: Irving B. Harris, Donald J. Cohen

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In this compassionate and controversial book, Irving Harris argues that the key to breaking the cycle of poverty and violence in America's inner cities is intervention at a very early stage, providing adequate care from birth.

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 7/24/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 268
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

He is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics & Psychology in the Yale Child Study Center, is a child & adolescent psychiatrist & psychoanalyst & the Director of the Yale Child Study Center.



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: An Odyssey of Learning



Raised in Jeopardy



Successful Intervention and Its Limits



Primary Prevention and the Right to Life



The Cost of Failure



The Abortion Question



The Cycle of Poverty and Violence: A Reassessment



Trends in Education: Poverty, Violence, and Punishment



Breaking the Cycle: A New War on Poverty, 1996


Appendix A: Agencies Working for Families and Children


Appendix B: The Ounce of Prevention Center for Successful Child Development Health Services: A Model


Notes


References


Index