Table of Contents

Foreword   Kathryn E. Barnard     ix
Coauthor's Preface   Susan Levenstein     xiii
Prologue to the Second Edition   Phyllis Levenstein     xxi
Chronology     xxvii
Introduction     1
Two Mothers, Two Children: Program Participants     5
Poverty in the Twenty-First Century: Parental Love Fights Back     23
"Show, Not Tell": The Parent-Child Home Program Method     39
Underpinnings: The Theory behind The Parent-Child Home Program     71
How Effective Is The Parent-Child Home Program?     86
Methodological Issues in Intervention Research: Lessons from The Parent-Child Home Program Experience     110
From Laboratory to Real World: Successful Replication of a Successful Intervention     124
Preventing a Dream from Becoming a Nightmare: The Ethics of Home Visiting Programs     153
Ludic Literacy: Prelude to Instrumental Literacy     160
Messages from Home: Meditations and Conclusions     168
The Parent-Child Home Program in Writing: Publications by and about the Program, 1968-2007     182
Outcome Measures Created by The Parent-Child Home Program     229
References     233
Index     249