TY - BOOK AU - Seefeldt,Kristin S. TI - Abandoned families: social isolation in the twenty-first century SN - 9780871547835 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - HQ536 .S3989 2017 U1 - 306.850973 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New York PB - Russell Sage Foundation KW - Families KW - United States KW - Poor families KW - Marginality, Social KW - Family services N1 - 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 ER -