Parenting in Public by Donna Haig Friedman

By Donna Haig Friedman

Whilst mom and dad needs to depend on public tips and kinfolk shelters to supply for his or her children?s most elementary wishes, they lose autonomy. inside a method of public guidance that already stigmatizes and isolates its beneficiaries, their family members lives develop into topic to public scrutiny and feedback. they're parenting in public. This ebook is an in-depth exam of the realities of existence for folks and their childrens in relations shelters. the writer makes use of the Massachusetts relatives protect procedure to discover the influence of asset and deficit-oriented help-giving ways as they're skilled via moms and repair companies. The structure of the e-book is exclusive. Following each one bankruptcy are the "reflections" of a mom who has parented in a look after, a front-line employee, and a shield director. the writer and individuals suggest a "Power With" coverage and perform framework that runs counter to the present "Power Over" cultural coverage tendencies. participants contain Rosa Clark, Brenda Farrell, Deborah grey, Michele Kahan, Margaret A. Leonard, Mary T. Lewis, Nancy Schwoyer, and Elizabeth Ward.

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In Massachusetts mixed dormitory settings for families are not an allowable option for publicly funded shelter programs. Rather, some shelter T  Family Shelter Environments settings provide a separate apartment; others provide a bedroom, bathroom, and kitchenette; most provide a separate bedroom for each family. A few others necessitate families having to share bedroom spaces with other families. This chapter will explore a range of controversies related to the physical environment of family shelters and its impact on the well-being of children and their parents.

In three of these programs, a curtain or partition provided a physical separation between families. Over half of the programs provided larger families with more than one bedroom space. The vast majority of programs provided families with a bedroom door that could be locked.

Parents might become angry and unwilling to continue to comply with organizational and group norms if they found that shelter living lasted longer than expected and other affiliation benefits related to the help-giving process were not available. They might use indirect forms of resistance, such as minor rule violations, verbal agreement without follow-through, decreased investment in the shelter community, or subtle complaints or criticisms of staff and other parents. They might take out their frustrations on other resident parents or children.

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