The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families : Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing /
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2018.
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Table of 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 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. The 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. 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 / Guný Björk 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.