Families at Risk: The Effects of Chronic and Multiple Disadvantage

Families at Risk: The Effects of Chronic and Multiple Disadvantage

Publication Date

2006

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Subjects

Disadvantaged, At risk persons, Family characteristics

Abstract

The Families at Risk study has produced local evidence drawing attention to the strengths and challenges for parents living in situations of chronic and multiple disadvantage with children aged 0 to 7 years. Life for the majority of these parents and young children is under-resourced, stressful and isolated, and interventions are required that open up pathways out of disadvantaged life situations. In order to achieve improved outcomes for families at risk, a paradigm shift is required so that unequal outcomes for families and children are seen as social injustices, rather than as products of individual dysfunction or deficit. This paper suggests how services should respond in order to address these inequalities.

Place of Publication

Adelaide, Australia

Publisher

Shannon Research Press

ISBN

1-920736-13-1

Geographic Subject

South Australia

Families at Risk: The Effects of Chronic and Multiple Disadvantage

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