The Web of Poverty Psychosocial Perspectives

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Origins of This Volume
• Volume Contents
• Intended Audiences
• Poverty in the United States and Canada
• Across the World
• Poverty in North America
• Canada and the United States
• The Extent of Poverty
• Other Aspects of Poverty
• The Gap Between Rich and Poor
• Mobility Out of and Back into Poverty
• The Reduction of Rural Poverty
• Conclusion
• Systemic Causes of Poverty
• Globalization of the Economy
• Evolving Structure of the Economy
• Relative Loss of Manufacturing Jobs
• Expansion of the Service Sector
• Increase in Part-Time Employment
• Increase in Low-Paying Jobs
• Increase in Two-Wage-Earner Families
• Higher Educational Requirements
• Job Relocation
• Emphasis on Financial Profit
• Unemployment
• National Debt
• Low Social Assistance Programs
• Low-Skilled Immigrants
• Conclusion
• Personal Causes of Poverty
• Single Parenting
• Single Parenting and Poverty
• Divorced Single Parenting
• Never-Married Parenting
• Effects on Children
• Poverty in the Family of Origin
• School Dropout and Lack of Education
• Additional Factors: Delinquency and Ill Health
• Conclusion
• Urban Neighborhoods in Poverty
• The Canadian Exception
• The Development of High-Poverty Neighborhoods
• Depletion of Neighborhood Resources
• Poor Neighborhoods and Negative Socialization of Children
• Poor Neighborhoods as Risk Factors for Children
• Homelessness
• The Nonpoor in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
• Conclusion
• Schools and Education in Poor Districts
• Schools in Impoverished Neighborhoods
• Quality of School Personnel and Disadvantaged Families
• Disadvantaged Students and Schools
• Family Routine and Organization
• Parental Resources and Involvement in Schooling
• Low-Income Minority Students
• Involuntary and Voluntary Minorities
• Conclusion
• Disadvantaged Families
• Family Size
• Adolescent Single Parenting
• The Situation
• Consequences for Offspring
• Types of Single Adolescent Mothers
• Single Fathers: The Real Problem?
• Family Conflict and Spousal Abuse
• Child Abuse
• Child Neglect
• Abuse of Parents by Children
• Parenting Skills and Poverty
• Parental Dilemmas
• Conclusion
• Women, Children, and the Elderly
• Women
• Mothers in Poverty
• Their Burden
• The Matter of “Proper” Childrearing Practices
• Mothers as Victims
• Children
• The Extent of Child Poverty
• Consequences of Poverty for Children
• Negative Child Outcomes
• Homeless Children
• The Elderly
• Elderly Women
• Conclusion
• Visible Minorities, Discrimination, and Segregation
• Recent Roots of Inequalities
• Racial and Ethnic Inequalities and Poverty
• Segregation
• Work Discrimination
• Health Differentials
• Reduced Life Expectancy
• Conclusion
• Health and Illness Differentials
• Health and Socioeconomic Status
• Life Expectancy
• The Differentials
• Myths About Life Expectancy
• Explanation for Differentials
• Illness-Related Problems
• Psychiatric Problems
• Cognitive Problems
• Is More Medical Care the Solution?
• Conclusion
• Poverty and Delinquency
• Aspects of Delinquency
• Personal Pathways to Delinquency
• Causes of Delinquency
• Poverty and Delinquency
• Poverty and Social Control
• Poverty and Segregated Minorities
• Poverty and Dysfunctional Opportunity Structure
• Poverty and the Media
• Conclusion
• Poverty Undermines Genetic Potential
• Genetics and Child Outcomes
• Outline of Behavior Genetics Principles
• Genotype-Environment Correlations
• Genetically Influenced Chains of Events
• Environmentally Influenced Chains of Events
• Environmental Rather Than Personal Deficits
• Poverty Creates Inferiority

Biography

Terry S Trepper