families with underage children; poverty; social work

The authors of this book deal with issue: poverty in households with underage children. They focus not only on families who have already found themselves in poverty but also families at risk of poverty. The book was written on the basis of a conducted research with the objective of an analysis of the living situation in households of families with underage children and the identification of ways by means of which the families cope with these situations. The objective was also the identification of the role of social work in coping with these situations. The last but not least objective was to obtain impulses for a possible innovation of social work with families with underage children living in poverty or at risk of poverty.