Valerie Polakow: 2 books
Who Cares for our Children?
The Child Care Crisis in the Other America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Valerie Polakow spent a year traveling around the country listening to low-income women from diverse backgrounds tell their stories of struggle, resilience, distress, and occasional success as they encountered ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is both a compelling account of the lived...
Lives on the Edge
Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1994
One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow...