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Economically Disadvantaged | 1 |
Family Programs | 1 |
Home Visits | 1 |
Poverty | 1 |
Poverty Programs | 1 |
Program Effectiveness | 1 |
Social Attitudes | 1 |
Social Services | 1 |
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Future of Children | 1 |
Author
Halpern, Robert | 1 |
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Journal Articles | 1 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
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Halpern, Robert – Future of Children, 1993
Argues that home visiting and related services have been shaped and constrained by the tendency to use services as a substitute for adequate income and economic opportunity, by ambivalent attitudes toward poor people, and by a preoccupation with the effects of poverty on child rearing. Proposes basic principles of practice that should guide early…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Family Programs, Home Visits, Poverty