Focus on Single-Parent Families

Past, Present, and Future
Herausgeber: Yarber, Annice; Sharp, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking collection of writings on the growing phenomenon of single-parent families in the United States, and how it impacts society as a whole. Focus on Single-Parent Families: Past, Present, and Future brings together in one volume a range of cutting-edge research articles and essays on what has become the most dynamic change in family structure in U.S. history. It is the only resource to make the most insightful and important work being done on the single-parent family phenomena accessible to general readers. Focus on Single-Parent Families helps readers go beyond the stereotypes and look closely at the complexity of families with one parent and consider their place in society. It encompasses the wide variety of households with a single parent-a family structure that promises to continue to grow and diversify. Throughout, the book gauges the impact of the increasing number of single-parent families on the nation as a whole, particularly in regard to policies concerning family welfare, children's services and health care, schools, and other essential social institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780313379505
• ISBN-10: 0313379505
• Artikelnr.: 26985192

Autorenporträt

Annice D. Yarber is associate professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL. Paul M. Sharp is professor of sociology in the Department of Scoiology at Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Historical Trends in Family Life and
Structure 1. What's Happening to the Family: Demographic and Institutional
Changes Larry L. Bumpass Part Two: Social Diversity and Single-Parent
Families 2. Poverty, Welfare, and Livelihood Strategies of Nonmetropolitan
Single Mothers J. Brian Brown and Daniel T. Lichter 3. The Single-Father
Family: Demographic, Economic, and Public Transfer Use Characteristics
Brett V. Brown 4. Children Raised in Fatherless Families from Infancy: A
Follow-Up of Children of Lesbian and Single Heterosexual Mothers at Early
Adolescence Fiona MacCallum and Susan Golombok 5. Family Structure and
Children's Success: A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-Mother
Families Timothy J. Biblarz and Greg Gottainer 6. Influences on
Delinquency: The Role of the Single-Parent Family Amy L. Anderson 7.
Parental Incarceration: Implications of Child Welfare Elizabeth I. Johnson
and Jane Waldfogel 8. Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren Catherine Goodman
and Merril Silverstein Part Three: Single-Parent Families: The Lived
Experience 9. Expenditures on Children and Financial Difficulties Mark Lino
10. The Psychological Well-Being of Single Parents Anna-Marie Cunningham
and Chris Knoester 11. Single Parenthood and the Law Lynda H. Walters and
Carla Abshire 12. The Impact of Parents' Marital Status on the Time
Adolescents Spend in Productive Activities Cathleen Zick and Corrine Allen
13. The Effects of Neighborhood and Mother-Teen Relationships on Adolescent
Sexual Activity H. Harrington Cleveland and Michael Gilson 14. Religious
Involvement as a Source of Support? Ann Sorenson, Carl F. Grindstaff, and
R. Jay Turner Part Four: Social Problems and Policy 15. Rethinking the
"Pathology of Matriarchy": Family Structure, Educational Attainment, and
Socioeconomic Success Timothy J. Biblarz and Adrian E. Raftery 16. Child
Care Policy Reform and Employment of Single Mothers Jay Bainbridge, Marcia
K. Meyers, and Jane Waldfogel 17. Explaining Trends in Child Support:
Economic, Demographic, and Policy Effects Anne C. Case, I-Fen Lin, and Sara
S. McLanahan 18. Effective Child Support Policy for Low-Income Single
Parents Maureen R. Waller and Robert Plotnick Index