Complicated Lives : : Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice / / Vera Lopez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Lopez, Vera,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Дата издания: 2017
• Язык: English
• Серии: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• Объем: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 2 figures, 3 tables

Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system (living in group homes, a residential treatment center, and a youth correctional facility) who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez sit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Growing Up in a "Dysfunctional" Family
• 2. Mothers' Little Helpers
• 3. Daddy's Little Girl: Feeling Rejected, Abandoned, and Unloved
• 4. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
• 5. Doing Drugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• 6. Parents' Attempts to Intervene on Behalf of Drug-Using Daughters
• 7. Property of the State: Locked Up, Locked Out, and in Need of Treatment
• 8. Moving beyond the Individual toward Programmatic, Systemic, and Policy Solutions
• Appendix A. Doing Research with System-Involved Girls
• Appendix B. Study Participants
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author