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Author Horowitz, Ruth, 1947-

Title Teen mothers--citizens or dependents? / Ruth Horowitz.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1995.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.82 H816T    Check Shelf
Description x, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary In a book that speaks clearly and forcefully to the heart of the welfare debates, Ruth Horowitz examines one of the most critical questions of welfare policy: How can a government program help one of sodety's neediest groups move from welfare dependency to employment, independence, and responsible citizenship? The setting is Project GED, a year-long government-sponsored program designed to help teen mothers earn high school equivalency diplomas and to provide job-readiness training. As a participant-observer, Horowitz followed the women through each stage of the program, recording their successes and failures, fears and dreams. In a vivid and sensitive portrait, she brings to life the human dramas at the center of their everyday lives.
Teen Mothers is more than a superbly written chronicle of hard work, friendship, conflict, and learning; Horowitz identifies the reasons for the success or failure of programs such as Project GED. She found that the organization of the program itself, as well as the social workers' relationship to participants, was a crucial factor in fostering all of the skills needed to live and work as independent citizens. Successful programs, Horowitz notes, encourage the mothers to connect their identities as mothers and girlfriends with their new roles as students and workers; and a strong emphasis on decision making, cooperation, and inclusion helps young women develop the self-esteem they need to become self-reliant and civic-minded. This inside look at a social service program in action is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand, and ultimately correct, our country's failing welfare system.
Awards Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Charles Horton Cooley Award, 1995.
Subject Teenage mothers -- Services for -- United States.
Welfare recipients -- Education -- United States.
Public welfare administration -- United States.
Public welfare administration. (OCoLC)fst01083346
Teenage mothers -- Services for. (OCoLC)fst01145484
Welfare recipients -- Education. (OCoLC)fst01173643
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Mutter (DE-588)4040949-1
Minderjährigkeit (DE-588)4170005-3
Sozialpolitik (DE-588)4055879-4
Jongeren.
Ongehuwde moeders.
Sociale integratie.
Heropvoeding.
Programma's.
Public welfare.
Teenage mothers.
United States.
ISBN 0226353788 (alk. paper)
9780226353784 (alk. paper)
0226353796
9780226353791
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