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Overview
This book describes the overall and comparative status of black and white children and families in America; the unacceptable human and public costs that result from widespread child and family poverty; our nation's failure to invest adequately and preventively in all our young--black and white, poor and middle class alike; and much more.Synopsis
This book describes the overall and comparative status of black and white children and families in America; the unacceptable human and public costs that result from widespread child and family poverty; our nation's failure to invest adequately and preventively in all our young--black and white, poor and middle class alike; and much more.
Marilyn Gardner - Christian Science Monitor
This is a small, readable book with a large, urgent message--one that needs and deserves all the readers and attention it can get.
Editorials
Christian Science Monitor
This is a small, readable book with a large, urgent message—one that needs and deserves all the readers and attention it can get.
— Marilyn Gardner
Time
A leading advocate for young people...Edelman has ensured that even though the young cannot vote or make campaign contributions, they are not ignored in Washington...Senator Edward Kennedy described Edelman as the '101st Senator on children's issues...She has real power in Congress and uses it brilliantly.'
— Nancy Traver
Washington Post
A book that radiates passionate concern for the millions of children who have been shunted aside in the current prosperity and whose plight has only lately begun to receive political and journalistic attention...Families in Peril is a powerful and necessary document.
— Jonathan Yardley