Supportive Services for Families in Poverty: Dilemmas of Reform
Social Service ReviewPublished 1 September 1991
Robert Halpern
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In this article I examine constraints to the provision of responsive and coherent services to poor families. These constraints include Americans' ambivalence about how to interpret and respond to family poverty and an inappropriate reliance on services to address deeply rooted societal problems.
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