Questioning the power of resilience : are children up to the task of disrupting the transmission of poverty

This chapter addresses the question of whether studies of resilience are useful for research and practice concerning children's poverty and the life course and intergenerational transmission of poverty. Based on a review of the increasing exercise of the resilience concept in various fields of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Boyden, J, Cooper, E
Other Authors: Addison, T
Format: Book section
Published: Oxford University Press 2009