The triple bind of single-parent families : resources, employment and policies to improve wellbeing / edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Laurie C. Maldonado.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Nieuwenhuis, Rense, editor.

Maldonado, Laurie C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single parents--Social conditions.

Single parents.

Single-parent families.

Single parents--Employment.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2018.

Summary:

Single parents face countless hardships, but they can be boiled down to a triple bind: inadequate resources, insufficient employment, and limited support policies. This book brings together research from a range of disciplines from more than forty countries-with particularly detailed case studies from the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, and Scotland. It addresses numerous issues related to the struggles of single parents, including poverty, employment, health, children's development and education, and more.

Contents:

List of figures and tables

List of abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

One. The 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 Hï¿1/2arkï¿1/2onen

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 Mariï¿1/2na Fernï¿1/2andez 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 Lï¿1/2aftman, Viveca ï¿1/2Ostberg and Malin Bergstrï¿1/2om

Part . Adequate employment

Eight. A life-course approach to single mothers' economic wellbeing in different welfare states / Hannah Zagel and Sabine Hï¿1/2ubgen

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. The health penalty of single parents in institutional context / Rense Nieuwenhuis, Anne Grete Tï¿1/2ge 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. The 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 / Guï¿1/2nï¿1/2y Bjï¿1/2ork Eydal

Eighteen. The 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. The socioeconomics of single parenthood : reflections on the triple bind / Janet C. Gornick

Twenty-one. Conclusion / Laurie C. Maldonado and Rense Nieuwenhuis

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

1447333640

9781447333647

OCLC:

991675477