Focus on single-parent families [[electronic resource] ] : past, present, and future / / editors, Annice D. Yarber, Paul M. Sharp

• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2010; New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85/60973
• Soggetto topico: Single parents - United States; Single-parent families - United States
• Altri autori: SharpPaul M YarberAnnice D
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part one: historical trends in family life and structure -- What's happening to the family: demographic and institutional changes / Larry L. Bumpass - ; Part two: social diversity and single-parent families -- Poverty, welfare, and livelihood strategies of nonmetropolitan single mothers / J. Brian Brown and Daniel T. Lichter -- The single-father: demographic, economic, and public transfer use characteristics / Brett V. Brown -- Children raised in fatherless familes from infancy: a follow-up of children of lesbian and single heterosexual mothers at early adolescence / Fiona MacCallum and Susan Golombok -- Family structure and children's success: a comparison of widowed and divorced single-mother families / Timothy J. Biblarz and Greg Gottainer -- Influences on delinquency: the role of the single-parent family / Amy L. Anderson -- Parental incarceration: implications of child welfare / Elizabeth I. Johnson and Jane Waldfogel -- Grandmothers raising grandchildren / Catherine Goodman and Merril Silverstein -- ; Part three: single-parent families: the lived experience -- Expenditures on children and financial difficulties / Mark Lino -- The psychological well-being of single parents / Anna-Marie Cunningham and Chris Knoester -- Single parenthood and the law / Lynda H. Walters and Carla Abshire -- The impact of parents' marital status on the time adolescents spend in productive activities / Cathleen Zick and Corrine Allen -- The effects of neighborhood and mother-teen relationships on adolescent sexual activity / H. Harrington Cleveland and Michael Gilson -- Religious involvement as a source of support? / Ann Sorenson, Carl F. Grindstaff, and R. Jay Turner -- ; Part four: social problems and policy -- Rethinking the "pathology of matriarchy": family structure, educational attainment, and socioeconomic success / Timothy J. Biblarz and Adrian E. Raftery -- Child care policy reform and employment of single mothers / Jay Bainbridge, Marcia K. Meyers, and Jane Waldfogel -- Explaining trends in child support: economic, demographic, and policy effects / Anne C. Case, I-Fen Lin, and Sara S. McLanahan -- Effective child support policy for low-income single parents / Maureen R. Waller and Robert Plotnick.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 s
• Titolo autorizzato: Focus on single-parent families
• ISBN: 979-84-00-65199-1; 1-282-49211-X; 9786612492112; 0-313-37951-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792454503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II