| Description |
xvi, 239 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Mothers Alone: Themes and Variations -- Looking Backwards: The Search for Perspective -- Clarifying the Options: Insights from Abroad -- Single Mothers: Happenstance and Choice -- Income: Earnings, Child Support, and Government Benefits -- Time and Help: Managing Work, Family, Home, and Personal Life -- Social Change and Social Problem: Designing a Policy |
| Summary |
Single-mother families are becoming an increasingly large and diversified group in the United States and other industrialized countries. From the poor, uneducated, unskilled teenager to the middle-class professional mother by choice, single mothers and their children face serious economic and social difficulties. This timely and comprehensive volume considers public policy options that respond to the needs of single mothers and their children, particularly in the areas of income, work, and child care |
| Analysis |
Child day care |
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Overseas item |
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Single parents |
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Social policy |
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Social security payments |
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Statistics |
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United States |
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United States Single mothers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Child welfare -- United States.
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Family policy -- United States.
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Single parents -- Services for -- United States.
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Single-parent families -- United States.
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Mothers.
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Single Parent.
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Child Welfare.
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Public Policy.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Kahn, Alfred J., 1919-2009.
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| LC no. |
88006195 |
| ISBN |
0865691835 |
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