Lone Parenthood
Coping with Constraints and Making Opportunities
Prentice-Hall (Publisher)
Published in October 1991
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7450-0964-3 (ISBN)
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Description
"Lone Parenthood" sets out to explore the nature of the challenge that lone parents present to social policy and conventional thinking about families. It comprises contributions from a group of authors from a range of cultural backgrounds, drawing together a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject. A central theme of the book concerns the particular difficulties faced by lone parents bringing up their children without a partner in the household. While the authors recognize that individuals have entered lone parenthood through various routes, and that they have different ways of coping with the problems they may encounter, they also acknowledge that lone parents are united by their common experience of having to deal with their own lives and those of their children without the support of a partner and with limited support from the State.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Weight
341 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7450-0964-3 (9780745009643)
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Michael Hardy | Graham Crow | Michael Hardey
Lone Parenthood
Coping with Constraints and Making Opportunities
Book
09/1991
Prentice-Hall
€38.51
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Persons
Content
Introduction, Michael Hardey and Graham Crow; demographic change and lone parenthood, John Haskey; the housing strategies for lone parents, Graham Crow and Michael Hardey; patterns of health and illness amongst lone-parent families, Jennie Popay and Gill Jones; income, employment, daycare and lone parenthood, Michael Hardey and Judith Glover; family policy as an anti-poverty measure, John Baker; becoming a lone parent, Maggie French; the conflicting experiences of lone parenthood, Sandra Shaw; the transition from lone-parent family to step-family, Stephen Collins.