Research Catalog

Title

Women as single parents : confronting institutional barriers in the courts, the workplace, and the housing market / edited by Elizabeth A. Mulroy.

Publication

Dover, Mass. : Auburn House Pub. Co., ©1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mulroy, Elizabeth A.

Description

xvii, 311 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Single-parent families > United States
• Single mothers > United States
• Family policy > United States
• Unmarried mothers > United States
• Unmarried mothers
• Family policy
• Single mothers
• Single-parent families
• Alleinerziehende Mutter
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Familienpolitik
• Famille monoparentale > États-Unis
• Mères célibataires > États-Unis
• Politique familiale > États-Unis
• United States
• USA

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 291-298.

Contents

Part I. Background -- Introduction / Elizabeth A. Mulroy -- Who are single-parent families and where do they live? / Elizabeth A. Mulroy -- Part II. Experiencing single parenthood -- Gender bias in the courts / Lynn Hecht Schafran -- Restructuring family life / Frances Smalls Caple -- Working for less : single mothers in the workplace / Teresa Amott -- The search for affordable housing / Elizabeth A. Mulroy -- Part III. A call for Federal and State action -- The role of the courts in welfare reform / Barbara Sard -- Federal policy-making and family issues / Anne L. Radigan -- Single-parent families and a right to housing / Frank I. Smizik and Michael E. Stone -- Social reform : expanding choices and increasing institutional responsiveness / Elizabeth A. Mulroy.

ISBN

• 0865691762
• 9780865691766
• 9780865691773
• 0865691770
• 0865691770 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

88011920

OCLC

• ocm17876932
• 17876932
• SCSB-1722970

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library