The triple bind of single-parent families : resources, employment and policies to improve wellbeing /

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This edited collection examines the risks and issues faced by single parent-families and their children such as poverty, wealth/asset accumulation, health, well-being and combinative development, bringing together scholars from diverse social science backgrounds, including sociology, economics, poli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nieuwenhuis, Rense (Editor ), Maldonado, Laurie C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, [2018]
Temas:
Single parents.
Single parents > Employment.
Single-parent families.
Parents uniques.
Parents uniques > Travail.
Familles monoparentales.
Social services and welfare, criminology.
Social welfare and social services.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Social welfare & social services.
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family.
Single-parent families
Single parents > Employment
Single parents > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The triple bind of single-parent families: resources, employment and policies / Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado
  • Part 1: Adequate resources: 2. Single-mother poverty: how much do educational differences in single motherhood matter? / Juho Härkönen ; 3. The 'wealth-being' of single parents / Eva Sierminska ; 4. Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood / Morag C. Treanor ; 5. Single motherhood and child development in the UK / Susan Harkness and Mariña Fernández Salgado ; 6. Single parenthood and children's educational performance: inequalities among families and schools / Marloes de Lange and Jaap Dronkers ; 7. Wellbeing among children with single parents in Sweden: focusing on shared residence / Emma Fransson, Sara Brolin Låftman, Viveca Östberg and Malin Bergström
  • Part 2: Adequate employment: 8. A life-course approach to single mothers' economic wellbeing in different welfare states / Hannah Zagel and Sabine Hübgen ; 9. Doesn't anyone else care? Poverty among working single parents across Europe / Jeroen Horemans and Ive Marx ; 10. Middle-class single parents / Young-hwan Byun ; 11. Does the use of reconciliation policies enable single mothers to work? A comparative examination of European countries / Wim van Lancker ; 12. Whose days are left? Separated parents' use of parental leave in Sweden / Ann-Zofie Duvander and Nicklas Korsell ; 13. Matched on job qualities? Single and coupled parents in European comparison / Ingrid Esser and Karen M. Olsen ; 14. The health penalty of single parents in institutional context / Rense Nieuwenhuis, Anne Grete Tøge and Joakim Palme
  • Part 3: Adequate redistributive policy: 15. Cash benefits and poverty in single-parent families / Jonathan Bradshaw, Antonia Keung and Yekaterina Chzhen ; 16. The role of universal and targeted family benefits in reducing poverty in single-parent families / Ann Morissens; 17. Policies and practices for single parents in Iceland / Guðný Björk Eydal ; 18. The structural nature of the inadequate social floor for single-parent families / Bea Cantillon, Diego Collado and Natascha Van Mechelen
  • Part 4: Reflections and conclusion: 19. Social justice, single parents and their children / Gideon Calder ; 20. The socioeconomics of single parenthood: reflections on the triple bind / Janet C. Gornick ; 21. Conclusion / Laurie C. Maldonado and Rense Nieuwenhuis.

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