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Chapter 12 explores the potential of community support for multiproblem or “troubled” families in providing for the well-being of their children and socializing them to social responsibility. Attention today shifts to the community for basically two reasons: (1) Experience has shown that when left to themselves multiproblem families cannot provide for their children’s well-being nor carry out many aspects of socialization. (2) Public efforts to take over where families have failed have proved inadequate in far too many cases.
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Berger, B. (1987). Multiproblem Families and the Community. In: Wilson, J.Q., Loury, G.C. (eds) Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7029-5_12
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