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The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families
Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment, and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives. This book - multi-disciplinary and comparative in design - shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed case studies of Sweden, Iceland, Scotland, and the UK. It covers aspects of well-being that include poverty, good quality jobs, the middle class, wealth, health, children’s development and performance in school, and reflects on social justice. Leading international scholars challenge our current understanding of what works and draw policy lessons on how to improve the well-being of single parents and their children.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures and tables
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List of abbreviations
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Notes on contributors
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Acknowledgements
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The triple bind of single-parent families: resources, employment and policies
1 - Adequate resources
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Single-mother poverty: how much do educational differences in single motherhood matter?
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The ‘wealth-being’ of single parents
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Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood
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Single motherhood and child development in the UK
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Single parenthood and children’s educational performance: inequality among families and schools
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Wellbeing among children with single parents in Sweden: focusing on shared residence
145 - Adequate employment
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A life-course approach to single mothers’ economic wellbeing in different welfare states
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Doesn’t anyone else care? Variation in poverty among working single parents across Europe
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Middle-class single parents
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Does the use of reconciliation policies enable single mothers to work? A comparative examination of European countries
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Whose days are left? Separated parents’ use of parental leave in Sweden
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Matched on job qualities? Single and coupled parents in European comparison
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The health penalty of single parents in institutional context
311 - Adequate redistributive policies
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Cash benefits and poverty in single-parent families
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The role of universal and targeted family benefits in reducing poverty in single-parent families in different employment situations
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Policies and practices for single parents in Iceland
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The structural nature of the inadequate social floor for single-parent families
401 - Reflections and conclusions
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Social justice, single parents and their children
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The socioeconomics of single parenthood: reflections on the triple bind
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Conclusion
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 7, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781447333654
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
504
Other:
53 Black and White
eBook ISBN:
9781447333654
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;
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BY-NC 4.0
