TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silver,Lauren J.
TI  - System kids: adolescent mothers and the politics of regulation 
SN  - 9781469622613
AV  - HQ759.4 .S537 2015eb
U1  - 362.7/874300973 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Teenage mothers
KW  - United States
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Aid to families with dependent children programs
KW  - Maternal and infant welfare
KW  - Mères adolescentes
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Aide sociale aux familles avec enfants à charge
KW  - Protection maternelle et infantile
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index; 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
N2  - 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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