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

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

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
Otros Autores: Maldonado, Laurie C., editor (editor), Nieuwenhuis, Rense author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press 2018.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Social sciences
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419812306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • The triple bind of single-parent families: resources, employment and policies
  • Adequate resources
  • Single-mother poverty: how much do educational differences in single motherhood matter?
  • The 'wealth-being' of single parents
  • Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood
  • Single motherhood and child development in the UK
  • Single parenthood and children's educational performance: inequality among families and schools
  • Wellbeing among children with single parents in Sweden: focusing on shared residence
  • Adequate employment
  • A life-course approach to single mothers' economic wellbeing in different welfare states
  • Doesn't anyone else care? Variation in poverty among working single parents across Europe
  • Middle-class single parents
  • Does the use of reconciliation policies enable single mothers to work? A comparative examination of European countries
  • Whose days are left? Separated parents' use of parental leave in Sweden
  • Matched on job qualities? Single and coupled parents in European comparison
  • The health penalty of single parents in institutional context
  • Adequate redistributive policies
  • Cash benefits and poverty in single-parent families
  • The role of universal and targeted family benefits in reducing poverty in single-parent families in different employment situations
  • Policies and practices for single parents in Iceland
  • The structural nature of the inadequate social floor for single-parent families
  • Reflections and conclusions
  • Social justice, single parents and their children
  • The socioeconomics of single parenthood: reflections on the triple bind
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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