Focus on single-parent families
Subtitle: past, present, and future
By: editors, Annice D. Yarber, Paul M. Sharp
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780313379505; 9780313379512
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: historical trends in family life and structure; title: What's happening to the family: demographic and institutional changes  -- Larry L. Bumpass -- Part two: social diversity and single-parent families; title: Poverty, welfare, and livelihood strategies of nonmetropolitan single mothers  -- J. Brian Brown and Daniel T. Lichter; title: The single-father: demographic, economic, and public transfer use characteristics  -- Brett V. Brown; title: Children raised in fatherless familes from infancy: a follow-up of children of lesbian and single heterosexual mothers at early adolescence  -- Fiona MacCallum and Susan Golombok; title: Family structure and children's success: a comparison of widowed and divorced single-mother families  -- Timothy J. Biblarz and Greg Gottainer; title: Influences on delinquency: the role of the single-parent family  -- Amy L. Anderson; title: Parental incarceration: implications of child welfare  -- Elizabeth I. Johnson and Jane Waldfogel; title: Grandmothers raising grandchildren  -- Catherine Goodman and Merril Silverstein -- Part three: single-parent families: the lived experience; title: Expenditures on children and financial difficulties  -- Mark Lino; title: The psychological well-being of single parents  -- Anna-Marie Cunningham and Chris Knoester; title: Single parenthood and the law  -- Lynda H. Walters and Carla Abshire; title: The impact of parents' marital status on the time adolescents spend in productive activities  -- Cathleen Zick and Corrine Allen; title: The effects of neighborhood and mother-teen relationships on adolescent sexual activity  -- H. Harrington Cleveland and Michael Gilson; title: Religious involvement as a source of support?  -- Ann Sorenson, Carl F. Grindstaff, and R. Jay Turner -- Part four: social problems and policy; title: Rethinking the "pathology of matriarchy": family structure, educational attainment, and socioeconomic success  -- Timothy J. Biblarz and Adrian E. Raftery; title: Child care policy reform and employment of single mothers  -- Jay Bainbridge, Marcia K. Meyers, and Jane Waldfogel; title: Explaining trends in child support: economic, demographic, and policy effects  -- Anne C. Case, I-Fen Lin, and Sara S. McLanahan; title: Effective child support policy for low-income single parents -- Maureen R. Waller and Robert Plotnick.