City survivors: Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Anne Power
Abstract
Seen through the eyes of parents, mainly mothers, this book tells the eye-opening story of what it is like to bring up children in troubled city neighbourhoods. The book provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community, regeneration, and public services. This book is based on yearly visits over seven years to two hundred families living in four highly disadvantaged city neighbourhoods, two in East London and two in Northern inner and outer cit ... More
Seen through the eyes of parents, mainly mothers, this book tells the eye-opening story of what it is like to bring up children in troubled city neighbourhoods. The book provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community, regeneration, and public services. This book is based on yearly visits over seven years to two hundred families living in four highly disadvantaged city neighbourhoods, two in East London and two in Northern inner and outer city areas. Twenty four families, six from each area, explain over time, from the inside, how neighbourhoods in and of themselves directly affect family survival. These twenty four stories convey powerful messages from parents about the problems they want tackled, and the things that would help them. The main themes explored in the book are neighbourhood, community, family, parenting, incomes, locals, and the need for civic intervention.
Keywords:
city neighbourhoods,
family life,
equality,
integration,
schools,
work,
regeneration,
public services,
community,
civic intervention
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781847420503 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847420503.001.0001 |
