System kids : adolescent mothers and the politics of regulation / Lauren J. Silver.

By:

Silver, Lauren J [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (x, 198 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469622613
1469622610
9781469622606
1469622602

Other title: 祓瑳浥䬠摩 Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: System kidsDDC classification:

362.7/874300973 23

LOC classification:

HQ759.4 .S537 2015eb

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Contents:

Introduction. They want to see you fail : Dilemmas in child welfare -- Playing case manager : Work life in a culture of fear -- The better places don't want teen moms : Invisible lives, hidden program spaces -- The real responsibility is on you! : The self-sufficiency trap -- I am young. I'm not dumb; and I'm not anxious : Identity performances as service negotiation -- The program allowed me to get pregnant : Everyday resistance, dignity, and fleeting collectives -- Conclusion. Moving from disconnected systems to communities of care -- Afterword. Interruptions in fieldwork.

Summary: This title explores the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on scholarship as well as her experience as a welfare programme manager, Lauren Silver demonstrates how social welfare 'silos' construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing unforgiving policies and imposing demands on women the system was intended to help.

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Text in English.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.

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This title explores the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on scholarship as well as her experience as a welfare programme manager, Lauren Silver demonstrates how social welfare 'silos' construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing unforgiving policies and imposing demands on women the system was intended to help.

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