Description:
This book reviews the extant literature on children's after-school worlds and presents qualitative and quantitative data from a longitudinal study by the author. For developmentalists, family specialists, educators, policy makers, and parents!
Review Quotes:
"People who study families and people who serve families will see the families they study and serve in the pictures that are created out of the words of the children and parents who experienced these after-school hours presented in The After-School Lives of Children. Belle's presentation does justice to their hope that such lives can be better for the families in the future."
--Contemporary Psychology
"In the face of these findings, the public policy issues discussed in the final chapter on implications seem entirely appropriate and not at all overstated."
--Human Development
"[Belle's] research-described in both scientific and human terms-illuminates the complexity of the problem and encourages us to consider the broad array of answers that defy simple classification into positive and negative outcomes."
--Adolescence