Good Parents or Good Workers?

Jill Duerr Berrick is Professor, School of Social Welfare, Faculty Leader, Child Welfare Research Center, and is Co-Director, Center for Child and Youth Policy, University of California at Berkeley. Bruce Fuller is Professor, School of Education, University of California at Berkeley, and is Co-Director, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE).

"This is an important text that fills a significant void in the welfare reform literature and could not be coming at a more opportune time...The major strength of the volume is in the rich, qualitative data, that allows readers to 'hear' the voices of impoverished parents; and the collected studies illustrate the complexity of their lives." - Robert Geen, Director, Child Welfare Research Program, The Urban Institute