Seefeldt, Kristin S.,

Abandoned families : social isolation in the twenty-first century / Kristin S. Seefeldt. - xv, 263 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.

From social isolation to social abandonment -- Abandoned Detroit -- Abandoned by institutions of inclusion and stability: the failed promise of employment -- Abandoned by institutions of mobility: the failed promise of post-secondary education and home ownership -- Abandoned by the safety net: contestations, denials, and incompetence in benefit processing -- Debt: the new sharecropping system -- Making abandoned families striving families again.

9780871547835 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2016023826


Families--United States.
Poor families--United States.
Marginality, Social--United States.
Family services--United States.

HQ536 / .S3989 2017

306.850973