The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families

The 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 Haerkoenen;


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 Marina Fernandez 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 Laftman, Viveca OEstberg and Malin Bergstroem;


Part 2: Adequate employment


A life-course approach to single mothers' economic wellbeing in different welfare states ~ Hannah Zagel and Sabine Huebgen;


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 Toge 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 ~ Gu?ny Bjoerk 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.