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New edition of this bestselling undergraduate textbook, adopted in sociology and education departments throughout the world.
Children, Social Problems, and Society
Children, Social Problems, and Society
In this chapter we'll examine social problems related to the quality of children's lives and their opportunities for the future as adults in the societies in which they live. We begin the discussion with a focus on poverty and its effects on children's lives in developed and developing societies. We then consider several problems related to poverty, teen pregnancy and births, and violence against children.
Poverty and the Quality of Children's Lives
Of all the factors that contribute to the social problems of children, poverty is the most pervasive and the most insidious. Poverty clearly steals the childhoods and often the very lives of many children in the developing world. In recent years, however, the proportion of ...
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