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This work examines one of the most critical questions of welfare policy: how can a United States government programme help teen mothers - one of the most needful groups of all welfare recipients - move from welfare dependency to employment, independence and responsible citizenship?

Table of Contents
Preface Pt. 1: Issues in Program Development 1: Getting to Know Project GED 2: Contested Organizational Cultures: Helping and Authority Pt. 2: Social Service Providers and Teen Mothers 3: Social Service Providers' Problems of Social Identity 4: Social Distance as a Strategy of Compliance 5: Classroom Failure without Redress 6: Sex and Boyfriends: Your Dirty Laundry or Dramatic Dreams 7: Motherhood: Authenticity and the Context of Suspicion 8: Changing Welfare from Stigma to Scholarship: The Arbiters versus the Mediators Pt. 3: Is Welfare Reform Possible? 9: Backstage Links to Public Empowerment 10: The Embodied Reason of Welfare Reform References Index

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 6/15/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226353791, 978-0226353791
      ISBN10: 0226353796
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      Central / national / federal government policies Gender studies: women and girls Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work examines one of the most critical questions of welfare policy: how can a United States government programme help teen mothers - one of the most needful groups of all welfare recipients - move from welfare dependency to employment, independence and responsible citizenship?

      Table of Contents
      Preface Pt. 1: Issues in Program Development 1: Getting to Know Project GED 2: Contested Organizational Cultures: Helping and Authority Pt. 2: Social Service Providers and Teen Mothers 3: Social Service Providers' Problems of Social Identity 4: Social Distance as a Strategy of Compliance 5: Classroom Failure without Redress 6: Sex and Boyfriends: Your Dirty Laundry or Dramatic Dreams 7: Motherhood: Authenticity and the Context of Suspicion 8: Changing Welfare from Stigma to Scholarship: The Arbiters versus the Mediators Pt. 3: Is Welfare Reform Possible? 9: Backstage Links to Public Empowerment 10: The Embodied Reason of Welfare Reform References Index

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