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.