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Author Harris, Irving B. (Irving Brooks), 1910-2004.

Title Children in jeopardy : can we break the cycle of poverty? / Irving B. Harris.

Imprint New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale Child Study Center : Distributed by Yale University Press, c1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.70973 H241c    ---  Available
Description xxxi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Yale Child Study Center monograph series on child psychiatry, child development, and social policy ; [vol. 1]
Yale Child Study Center monograph series on child psychiatry, child development, and social policy ; vol. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-221) and index.
Contents Introduction: an odyssey of learning -- Raised in jeopardy -- Successful intervention and its limits -- Primary prevention and the Right to Life -- The cost of failure -- The abortion question -- The cycle of poverty and violence: a reassessment -- Trends in education, poverty, violence, and punishment -- Breaking the cycle: a new war on poverty, 1996.
Subject Child welfare.
Children with social disabilities -- Services for.
Poor children -- Services for.
Teenage pregnancy -- United States -- Prevention.
ISBN 0300068921 (cloth : acid-free paper)

 
    
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