Description: Vissing provides a planning model for improving support networks within communities and challenges Americans with a fundamental philosophical question: Do homeless children merit fullscale social intervention? Ultimately, Out of Sight, Out of Mind compels us not merely to voice concerns for family and community values, but to assert this commitment consciously through improved essential services.
Brief description: Yvonne M. Vissing, professor of sociology at Salem State College in Massachusetts, is a pediatric sociologist who has worked for two decades with social service agencies dealing with children.
Review Quotes:
Mixes a wide reading of available studies and investigations with her own interviews and field work. . . . The blend of broad, faceless, statistical descriptions with firsthand commentary by the humans behind them makes for compelling reading and a powerful argument.
-- "Arkansas Historical Quarterly"