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Families in the Urban Environment: Understanding Resilience
introduces students to some of the challenges that children and
families face in urban environments. The text also highlights
resilience as a process and discusses the family as a social unit.
The book is divided into five parts: Theories of Resilience, Family
in the United States, Marriage and Partnership, Family and Work
Life, and Urban Factors. Specific topics explored throughout the
text include social capital and health; resilience to
discrimination stress across ethnic identity stages of development;
familial dynamics in immigrant families; and resilience as it
relates to the survivors of partner and martial violence. The books
also explores familial budgets; the feminist reorganization of
family; child well-being in middle-class environments; educating
the homeless and other highly mobile students; protective factors
for low-income youth; and more. Families in the Urban Environment
presents students with a comprehensive look into the myriad
challenges that urban families face today. The book is ideal for
undergraduate courses in family systems, social work, or child
development.
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