The triple bind of single-parent families : Resources, employment and policies to improve well-being

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• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447333654
• Subtopic: Marriage & Family Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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, political science, and social work. This book is the first collection of studies to examine previously neglected social policies related to single-parent families and provides innovative outcomes that will improve the lives and well-being of single parents and their children.

Table of contents

• THE TRIPLE BIND OF SINGLE‑PARENT FAMILIES
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of abbreviations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. The triple bind of single‑parent families: resources, employment and policies
• Part 1: Adequate resources
• 2. Single-mother poverty: how much do educational differences in single motherhood matter?
• 3. The ‘wealth-being’ of single parents
• 4. Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood
• 5. Single motherhood and child development in the UK
• 6. Single parenthood and children’s educational performance: inequality among families and schools
• 7. Wellbeing among children with single parents in Sweden: focusing on shared residence
• Part 2: Adequate employment
• 8. A life-course approach to single mothers’ economic wellbeing in different welfare states
• 9. Doesn’t anyone else care? Variation in poverty among working single parents across Europe
• 10. Middle-class single parents
• 11. Does the use of reconciliation policies enable single mothers to work? A comparative examination of European countries
• 12. Whose days are left? Separated parents’ use of parental leave in Sweden
• 13. Matched on job qualities? Single and coupled parents in European comparison
• 14. The health penalty of single parents in institutional context
• Part 3: Adequate redistributive policies
• 15. Cash benefits and poverty in single-parent families
• 16. The role of universal and targeted family benefits in reducing poverty in single-parent families in different employment situations
• 17. Policies and practices for single parents in Iceland
• 18. The structural nature of the inadequate social floor for single-parent families
• Part 4: Reflections and conclusions
• 19. Social justice, single parents and their children
• 20. The socioeconomics of single parenthood: reflections on the triple bind
• 21. Conclusion
• Index