Title Mother-headed families and why they have increased / Ailsa Burns, Cath Scott

Published Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., 1994

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Description xv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Ch. 1. Is Easy Divorce to Blame? -- Ch. 2. The Contribution of Out-of-Wedlock Births to the Incidence of Mother-Headed Families -- Ch. 3. Why Out-of-Wedlock Births Increase -- Ch. 4. Ex-Nuptiality in Non-European Countries -- Ch. 5. Widows -- Ch. 6. Biosocial and Demographic Theories of Parenting -- Ch. 7. Feminist and Decomplementary Theories of Parenting -- Ch. 3. Final Conclusions Analysis Birth rate Divorce Families Family Mothers Overseas item Single parents Widows Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Subject Single-parent families. Women heads of households. Author Scott, Cath. LC no. 93034798 ISBN 080581440X (acid-free paper)

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