4. The Cost of Failure

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FOREWORD xi
4. PREFACE xv
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xviii
6. ABBREVIATIONS xxx
7. INTRODUCTION: AN ODYSSEY OF LEARNING 1
8. 1. Raised in Jeopardy 17
9. 2. Successful Intervention and Its Limits 37
10. 3. Primary Prevention and the Right to Life 76
11. 4. The Cost of Failure 105
12. 5. The Abortion Question 120
13. 6. The Cycle of Poverty and Violence: A Reassessment 146
14. 7. Trends in Education, Poverty, Violence, and Punishment 166
15. 8. Breaking the Cycle: A New War on Poverty, 1996 194
16. APPENDIX A: Agencies Working for Families and Children 207
17. APPENDIX B: The Ounce of Prevention Center for Successful Child Development Health Services: A Model 210
18. NOTES 212
19. REFERENCES 215
20. INDEX 223