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Based on over 500 interviews/case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia, this text reveals how parents managed different levels of resources and dangers in low-income neighbourhoods and how this management, rather than community involvement, contributed to the success of their children.

Managing to Make It Urban Families Adolescent

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    A Paperback / softback by Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Thomas D. Cook, Jacquelynne Eccles

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2000
      ISBN13: 9780226273938, 978-0226273938
      ISBN10: 0226273938
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      Poverty and precarity Society and culture: general Urban communities / city life

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      Book Synopsis
      Based on over 500 interviews/case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia, this text reveals how parents managed different levels of resources and dangers in low-income neighbourhoods and how this management, rather than community involvement, contributed to the success of their children.

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