by Ken Kolb “I want a restraining order against him right now.” The first time I heard a client say this during my research, I was surprised by the response she received. …
Read More >by Judith A. Levine “Right now today you really can’t trust no one,” Mia Fields declared as we sat in her kitchen talking about how she is raising her four girls. Mia …
Read More >by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo When the financial crisis hit, stores across the nation went out of business, but by 2009 one U.S. retailer was crowing about an upswing in sales: Burpee Seeds. The …
Read More >by Ana Villalobos “I just don’t feel quite right in the world without at least one child next to me…I should be more confident and not need a child almost as a …
Read More >by Randol Contreras For the last two years, I have conducted field research on East Los Angeles to learn how the economic recession has affected gangs. In particular, I am studying members …
Read More >by Yen Espiritu The socioeconomic conditions in which most Vietnamese children found themselves have been greatly insecure, “comparable only to those encountered by children of the most underprivileged native minority group.”[i] And …
Read More >by Leslie C. Bell, Ph.D., LCSW Excited yet embarrassed, Claudia, a twenty-eight-year-old I interviewed for my book, Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom, told me about a …
Read More >by Susan Starr Sered I first met Elizabeth at a drop-in center for poor and homeless women shortly after she was released from prison. Elizabeth’s father was a firefighter. Her mother worked …
Read More >by Sarah Halpern-Meekin Marissa Lopez and her toddler were scraping by on welfare in the late 1990s. Soon after she had her second daughter, she hit Massachusetts’ two-year time limit on welfare …
Read More >by Hadar Aviram In 2009, for the first time in almost forty years, the total number of inmates in the United states declined—a trend that persists since then. Six states have recently …
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