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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book presents evidence from over 40 countries that shows how single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives.
Trade Review"This excellent collection addresses the `triple bind’ of inadequate resources, employment, and policies for single mothers, and what this means for well-being. A thoughtful and innovative analysis." Jane Millar, University of Bath
"An excellent contribution: evidence and insight from top-notch analysts on one of our most important and difficult policy challenges." Lane Kenworthy, University of California
Table of ContentsThe triple bind of single-parent families: resources, employment, and policies ~ Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado; Part 1: Adequate resources Single-mother poverty: how much do educational differences in single motherhood matter? ~ Juho Härkönen; The 'wealth-being' of single parents ~ Eva Sierminska; Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood ~ Morag C.Treanor Single motherhood and child development in the UK ~Susan Harkness and Mariña Fernández Salgado; Single parenthood and children’s educational performance: inequalities among families and schools ~ Marloes de Lange and Jaap Dronkers; Wellbeing among children with single parents in Sweden –focusing on shared residence ~ Emma Fransson, Sara Brolin Låftman, Viveca Östberg and Malin Bergström; Part 2: Adequate employment A life-course approach to single mothers’ economic wellbeing in different welfare states ~ Hannah Zagel and Sabine Hübgen; Doesn’t anyone else care? Poverty among working single parents across Europe ~ Jeroen Horemans and Ive Marx; Middle-class single parents ~ Young-hwan Byun; Does the use of reconciliation policies enable single mothers to work? A comparative examination of European countries ~ Wim van Lancker; Whose days are left? Separated parents’ use of parental leave in Sweden ~ Ann-Zofie Duvander and Nicklas Korsell; Matched on job qualities? Single and coupled parents in European comparison ~ Ingrid Esser and Karen M. Olsen; The health penalty of single parents in institutional context ~ Rense Nieuwenhuis, Anne Grete Tøge and Joakim Palme; Part 3: Adequate redistributive policy Cash benefits and poverty in single-parent families ~ Jonathan Bradshaw, Antonia Keung and Yekaterina Chzhen; The role of universal and targeted family benefits in reducing poverty in single-parent families ~ Ann Morissens; Policies and practices for single parents in Iceland ~ Guðný Björk Eydal; The structural nature of the inadequate social floor for single-parent families ~ Bea Cantillon, Diego Collado and Natascha Van Mechelen; Part 4: Reflections and conclusion Social justice, single parents and their children ~ Gideon Calder; The socioeconomics of single parenthood: reflections on the triple bind ~ Janet C. Gornick; Conclusion ~ Laurie C. Maldonado and Rense Nieuwenhuis.
