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Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success (Volume 1998) (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health ... Studies on Successful Adolescent Development) - Hardcover
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One of the myths about families in inner-city neighborhoods is that they are characterized by poor parenting. Sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his colleagues explode this and other misconceptions about success, parenting, and socioeconomic advantage in Managing to Make It. This unique study—the first in the MacArthur Foundation Studies on Successful Adolescent Development series—focuses on how and why youth are able to overcome social disadvantages.
Based on nearly 500 interviews and case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia, Managing to Make It lays out in detail the creative means parents use to manage risks and opportunities in their communities. More importantly, it also depicts the strategies parents develop to steer their children away from risk and toward resources that foster positive development and lead to success.
"Indispensible to anyone concerned about breaking the cycle of poverty and helplessness among at-risk adolescents, this book has a readable, graphic style easily grasped by those unfamiliar with statistical techniques." —Library Journal
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This groundbreaking study explodes common misconceptions about parenting and success in socioeconomically disadvantaged urban communities and launches a new series on how and why youth are able to overcome-rather than succumb to-social adversity.
About the Author
Frank F. Furstenberg is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, most recently Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing.
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0226273911
- ISBN 13 9780226273914
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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