Covering the USA, Canada and the Caribbean, this book offers more than 110 holidays that make travelling a pleasure for both children and adults. The guide includes information for all the family - resorts on beaches and in mountains, ranch holidays, skiing holidays, adventure trips, cruises, nature trails and historic excursions. Each vacation is complete with information on accommodation, activities, programmes for children, restaurants that cater for and welcome children, nearby places of interest, rates, and tips on how to travel with children.

Super Family Vacations: Resort and Adventure Guide

Travel

Shirk, Martha

Klepper, Nancy

Reference

Perennial / HarperCollins

This widely acclaimed travel guide is packed with exciting vacation ideas especially geared toward families.

Super Family Vacations, 3rd Edition: Resort and Adventure Guide

Collins Reference

On Their Own: What Happens To Kids When They Age Out Of The Foster Care System

On Their Own tells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who face economic and social barriers stemming from the disruptions of foster care. This book calls for action to provide youth in foster care the same opportunities on the road to adulthood that most of our youth take for granted--access to higher education, vocational training, medical care, housing, and relationships within their communities. On Their Own is meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to all Americans who care about the future of our young people.

On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Basic Books

In Lives on the Line, Martha Shirk, Neil G. Bennett, and J. Lawrence Aber meld affecting personal profiles with sophisticated demographic analysis to create a vivid portrait of what life is like for more than 14 million American children growing up below the poverty line.In personal profiles of ten families across the nation, from a Pacific Islander family in Hawaii to a homeless family in a wealthy New York City suburb, award-winning journalist Martha Shirk depicts the realities of life for children below the poverty line. She takes readers deep into the lives of families in povertylives sometimes marked by childhood abuse, parental loss, and long-term violenceand with each family explores their prospects for moving above the poverty threshold. Along the way, Shirk finds amazing resilience, resourcefulness, and strength of spirit in many of these poor families.Neil G. Bennett, demographic research director for the highly respected National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University (NCCP), shatters many commonly held stereotypes by analyzing Census Bureau data to show which American children are most likely to be poor. He reports, for instance, that over 60 percent of poor young children have at least one employed parent, that most poor young children live in suburban or rural areas, and that a parent's graduation from high school is insufficient to insure against poverty. Among his most startling findings are that in the last two decades, the Young Child Poverty Rate grew significantly faster in the suburbs than in urban or rural areas, and that it grew much faster among whites than among blacks.J. Lawrence Aber, the director of NCCP and a nationally recognized expert in child development and social policy, describes the effects of poverty on child development and showcases proven strategies for preventing or reducing child poverty. He also shows us that it is in our national self-interest to address the problem of child poverty by making a smart investment in America's future.As a powerful portrait of the effects of poverty on America's children and families, Lives on the Line narrows the gap between them” and us.” It will change the way you think about the poor.

Lives On The Line: American Families And The Struggle To Make Ends Meet

Business & Money

Bennett, Neil G.

Aber, J. Lawrence

Economics

Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty And Became Their Own Bosses

Shares the inspirational stories of eleven low-income family women who started their own small businesses, describing how each came into a sense of personal empowerment and received assistance from non-profit organizations supported by the Ms. Foundation for Women.

Wadia, Anna S.

John Kerry

Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count on. What does it mean to be eighteen and on your own, without the family support and personal connections that most young people rely on? For many youth raised in foster care, it means largely unhappy endings, including sudden homelessness, unemployment, dead-end jobs, loneliness, and despair. On Their Own tells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who face economic and social barriers stemming from the disruptions of foster care. This book calls for action to provide youth in foster care the same opportunities on the road to adulthood that most of our youth take for granted-access to higher education, vocational training, medical care, housing, and relationships within their communities. On Their Own is meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to all Americans who care about the futures of our young people.

Stangler, Gary

Sociology

Over the last five years, the number of women-owned businesses has grown at twice the rate of all U.S. firms; in the next few years, the number is expected to surpass the six million mark. Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs tells the inspirational stories of eleven low-income women who have marshaled the creative energy, confidence, and capital necessary to start their own small businesses. These women, who have used their entrepreneurial skills as a route out of poverty, give an American face to an economic empowerment tool that has enjoyed great success in developing countries. By becoming their own bosses, they not only provide for their children but also inspire them. Though each of their businesses is unique, all eleven of these women have discovered previously unknown strengths as they've struggled to overcome personal and bureaucratic obstacles. All received important assistance from nonprofit organizations supported by the Ms. Foundation for Women, the pioneer funding entity of microenterprise programs in the United States. Updated with a new epilogue.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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Super Family Vacations: Resort and Adventure Guide

Super Family Vacations: Resort and Adventure Guide

Super Family Vacations, 3rd Edition: Resort and Adventure Guide

On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System

Lives On The Line: American Families And The Struggle To Make Ends Meet

Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty And Became Their Own Bosses

On Their Own: What Happens To Kids When They Age Out Of The Foster Care System

Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty And Became Their Own Bosses

Lives On The Line: American Families And The Struggle To Make Ends Meet