Saving Bernice: battered women, welfare, and poverty

ch. 1. Getting trapped

ch. 2. Trying to work

ch. 3. Having babies

ch. 4. Leaving

ch. 5. Recovering : is there a "culture of poverty"?

ch. 6. Little Billy's dilemma

ch. 7. The single mother myth and the role of welfare and work

ch. 8. Toward new public policy

ch. 9. Violence and poverty : the causes.