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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Contents |
List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- One. Triple bind of single-parent families: resources, employment, and policies / Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado -- Part 1. Adequate resources -- Two. Single-mother poverty : how much do educational differences in single motherhood matter? / Juho Härkönen -- Three. The 'wealth-being' of single parents / Eva Sierminska -- Four. Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood / Morag C. Treanor -- Five. Single motherhood and child development in the UK / Susan Harkness and Mariña Fernández Salgado -- Six. Single parenthood and children's educational performance : inequalities among families and schools / Marloes de Lange and Jaap Dronkers -- Seven. Wellbeing among children with single parents in Sweden : focusing on shared residence / Emma Fransson, Sara Brolin Låftman, Viveca Östberg and Malin Bergström -- Part . Adequate employment -- Eight. A life-course approach to single mothers' economic wellbeing in different welfare states / Hannah Zagel and Sabine Hübgen -- Nine. Doesn't anyone else care? : variation in poverty among working single parents across Europe / Jeroen Horemans and Ive Marx -- Ten. Middle-class single parents / Young-hwan Byun -- Eleven. Does the use of reconciliation policies enable single mothers to work? : a comparative examination of European countries / Wim van Lancker -- Twelve. Whose days are left? : separated parents' use of parental leave in Sweden / Ann-Zofie Duvander and Nicklas Korsell -- Thirteen. Matched on job qualities? : single and coupled parents in European comparison / Ingrid Esser and Karen M. Olsen -- Fourteen. Health penalty of single parents in institutional context / Rense Nieuwenhuis, Anne Grete Toge and Joakim Palme -- Part 3. Adequate redistributive policies -- Fifteen. Cash benefits and poverty in single-parent families / Jonathan Bradshaw, Antonia Keung and Yekaterina Chzhen -- Sixteen. Role of universal and targeted family benefits in reducing poverty in single-parent families in different employment situations / Ann Morissens -- Seventeen. Policies and practices for single parents in Iceland / Guný Björk Eydal -- Eighteen. Structural nature of the inadequate social floor for single-parent families / Bea Cantillon, Diego Collado and Natascha Van Mechelen -- Part 4. Reflections and conclusions -- Nineteen. Social justice, single parents and their children / Gideon Calder -- Twenty. Socioeconomics of single parenthood : reflections on the triple bind / Janet C. Gornick -- Twenty-one. Conclusion / Laurie C. Maldonado and Rense Nieuwenhuis -- Index. |
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Open Access Unrestricted online access |
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Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
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Single parents -- Social conditions. |
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Single parents -- Employment. |
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Single-parent families. |
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Single-parent families.
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Single parents -- Employment.
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Single parents. |
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Single parents -- Social conditions.
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Electronic books. .
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| Subject |
Single parent families. |
| Added Author |
Maldonado, Laurie C., editor.
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Nieuwenhuis, Rense, editor.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781447333654 |
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1447333659 |
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9781447333647 |
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1447333640 |
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