Author : Jo Casebourne
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Single mothers
ISBN :
Based on 112 interviews carried out with female lone parents by the Institute of Employment Studies in 2003 and 2004. Explores how health affects decisions about, and the sustainability of, work. Also examines the support needs of the lone parents and identifies how existing provision could be enhanced.
Author : Laura Bernardi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319632957
Lone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. The contributions included in this volume examine the dynamics of lone parenthood in the life course and explore the trajectories of lone parents in terms of income, poverty, labour, market behaviour, wellbeing, and health. Throughout, comparative analyses of data from countries as France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, and Australia help portray how lone parenthood varies between regions, cultures, generations, and institutional settings. The findings show that one-parent households are inhabited by a rather heterogeneous world of mothers and fathers facing different challenges. Readers will not only discover the demographics and diversity of lone parents, but also the variety of social representations and discourses about the changing phenomenon of lone parenthood. The book provides a mixture of qualitative and quantitative studies on lone parenthood. Using large scale and longitudinal panel and register data, the reader will gain insight in complex processes across time. More qualitative case studies on the other hand discuss the definition of lone parenthood, the public debate around it, and the social and subjective representations of lone parents themselves. This book aims at sociologists, demographers, psychologists, political scientists, family therapists, and policy makers who want to gain new insights into one of the most striking changes in family forms over the last 50 years. This book is open access under a CC BY License.
Author : Millar, Jane
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2001-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1861343205
Policy makers across the world confront issues relating to lone parents and employment, with many governments seeking to increase the participation of lone parents in the labour market. This book offers an analysis of policies and provisions in several countries, identifying policy lessons. Chapters are written by experts on lone parenthood.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780215514080
The Government has set itself the challenging target of halving the number of children living in poverty by 2010-11 and eradicating child poverty by 2020. With 2010 fast approaching, Ministers are still committed to the targets, and the Committee wanted to ascertain whether DWP has the right measures in place to meet its objectives. Significant progress has been made, but the target remains challenging: there are still 2.8 million children living in poverty and the most recent data shows a slight increase in this number. The Committee is convinced of the damaging effect of poverty on a child's self-esteem and expectations, and also its effects in contributing to social exclusion. Children growing up in poverty are also more likely to have poorer health and poorer educational outcomes. There are groups of children who have a much higher risk of growing up in poverty, for example if they or a parent are disabled, and there are higher poverty rates amongst Pakistani, Bangladeshi and black children. Getting parents into sustainable work should be the focus of the strategy to lift them and their children out of poverty, but there are concerns that the Jobseekers' Allowance regime is not sufficiently flexible to reflect the complexity of lone parents' lives. To eradicate child poverty by 2020, the Government needs a long-term strategy on benefit income for those who are unable to work. If benefits are uprated in line with inflation, the gap between the incomes of those in work and those on benefits will only get wider, as benefits will not keep pace with earnings. As poverty is measured as a percentage of median earnings, the implications for the 2020 target, in particular, are serious.
Author : Stephen McKay
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Lone Parents and Work
Author : Karen Rowlingson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1317888677
Appropriate as supplemental reading for courses in Social Policy and Social Studies that examine the role of parenting in society. The subject of lone mothers is a controversial and highly topical social and political issue. This unique core text examines the key issues in the debate, and assesses their impact on the UK and other countries in a comprehensive and accessible way. Broad in scope, it covers a wide range of issues including gender roles, the relationship of the family and the state, and the relationship between social policy and labour market policy.
Author : Nieuwenhuis, Rense
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1447333640
Single parents face countless hardships, but they can be boiled down to a triple bind: inadequate resources, insufficient employment, and limited support policies. This book brings together research from a range of disciplines from more than forty countries--with particularly detailed case studies from the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, and Scotland. It addresses numerous issues related to the struggles of single parents, including poverty, employment, health, children's development and education, and more.
Author : Lisa Heffernan
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1250188954
PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Author : Alan Marsh
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Presents findings from the third stage of the DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Low Income Families (PRILIF). The report assesses the first effects of the Child Support Agency in 1994, and the role of maintenance payments. It compares changes in the composition, income and labour market participation of lone parents surveyed in 1991, 1993 and 1994.
Author : Giovanna Rossi
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788846475954
