基本説明
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 servies and health care, schools, and other essential social institutions.
Full Description
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.
Contents
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
