ABSTRACT
Anti-poverty strategy focuses on strengthening and expanding the current set of publicly funded anti-poverty programs–making full systems more adaptive and responsive to the needs of the population. The logic model hypothesized here is that family stress from harsh economic conditions leads to depression, which leads to poor parenting quality. Despite the high numbers of U. S. families in poverty and deep poverty, there are a high number of poor families that are not receiving economic assistance. Generations of efforts that began during the War on Poverty of the 1960s and continue to the present day have underscored both the promise and the challenges of community-based efforts to combat entrenched poverty. Reducing poverty in a major way through our current array of strategies takes a generation. Research has shown that neighborhood factors, including structural characteristics such as rates of poverty, residential instability, and household composition, are related to rates of child abuse and neglect.
