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2004 |
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abstract |
The acute dilemmas facing lone mothers in raising their children and earning a living
form a common theme across the articles in this special issue of Feminist Economics
on Lone Mothers. Like other parents, lone mothers face difficult decisions in allocating
their time to caregiving and income generation, but in their families there is only
one adult to do both. Further, that one adult is a woman, who will generally earn
less than a man, compounding the difficulties. Lone mothers must rely on a range of
support mechanisms (fathers, other family members, employers, and government policy)
to manage; they can therefore rarely be economically independent. Policies that are
ideologically reluctant to support unmarried mothers in their caregiving may divide
unmarried mothers from other lone mothers, and lone mothers from other poor parents.
Nevertheless, most lone mothers find creative strategies to manage that are as varied
as lone mothers themselves. |
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2 |
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peerReviewed |
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10 |
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Article |
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Albelda, Randy; Himmelweit, Susan and Humphries, Jane (2004). The dilemmas of
lone motherhood: key issues for feminist economics. Feminist Economics, 10(2) pp.
1–7. |
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Albelda, Randy; Himmelweit, Susan and Humphries, Jane (2004). The dilemmas of lone
motherhood: key issues for feminist economics. Feminist Economics, 10(2) pp. 1–7. |
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The dilemmas of lone motherhood: key issues for feminist economics |
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