Parenting and Family Life

This expansive book examines the challenges faced by families living in poverty across the globe. Bringing together cutting-edge theoretical knowledge and empirical findings, leading experts highlight the practices families use to cope with the interconnected pressures of limited resources and social marginalization.Presenting insights from Australia, Finland, Indonesia and the United States, amongst other countries, contributing authors explore the enduring importance of familial resilience, investigating poverty as a lived experience and its consequences for wellbeing. They analyze care, paid and unpaid work, parenting stress, family relations and parenting support as well as the significance of community and policy for struggling families. Chapters address contemporary issues such as patchworks of support, work-family conflicts, migrant workers and the role of governmental programs. The book concludes by evaluating ecological systems theory as a tool for understanding parenting and family life in economic disadvantage.Providing frameworks and suggestions for future research, Parenting and Family Life is an invaluable guide for scholars and students of sociology, family studies, education, psychology and organizational studies. With policy recommendations in each chapter, it is also highly beneficial for social work practitioners and policymakers seeking to better understand and support families experiencing poverty.