The triple bind of single-parent families : resources, employment and policies to improve wellbeing / edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The triple bind of single-parent families: resources, employment and policies / Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado -- Part 1: Adequate resources: 2. Single-mother poverty: how much do educational differences in single motherhood matter? / Juho Harkonen ; 3. The 'wealth-being' of single parents / Eva Sierminska ; 4. Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood / Morag C. Treanor ; 5. Single motherhood and child development in the UK / Susan Harkness and Marina Fernandez Salgado ; 6. Single parenthood and children's educational performance: inequalities among families and schools / Marloes de Lange and Jaap Dronkers ; 7. Wellbeing among children with single parents in Sweden: focusing on shared residence / Emma Fransson, Sara Brolin Laftman, Viveca Ostberg and Malin Bergstrom -- Part 2: Adequate employment: 8. A life-course approach to single mothers' economic wellbeing in different welfare states / Hannah Zagel and Sabine Hubgen ; 9. Doesn't anyone else care? Poverty among working single parents across Europe / Jeroen Horemans and Ive Marx ; 10. Middle-class single parents / Young-hwan Byun ; 11. Does the use of reconciliation policies enable single mothers to work? A comparative examination of European countries / Wim van Lancker ; 12. Whose days are left? Separated parents' use of parental leave in Sweden / Ann-Zofie Duvander and Nicklas Korsell ; 13. Matched on job qualities? Single and coupled parents in European comparison / Ingrid Esser and Karen M. Olsen ; 14. The health penalty of single parents in institutional context / Rense Nieuwenhuis, Anne Grete Tge and Joakim Palme -- Part 3: Adequate redistributive policy: 15. Cash benefits and poverty in single-parent families / Jonathan Bradshaw, Antonia Keung and Yekaterina Chzhen ; 16. The role of universal and targeted family benefits in reducing poverty in single-parent families / Ann Morissens; 17. Policies and practices for single parents in Iceland / Guny Bjork Eydal ; 18. 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: 19. Social justice, single parents and their children / Gideon Calder ; 20. The socioeconomics of single parenthood: reflections on the triple bind / Janet C. Gornick ; 21. Conclusion / Laurie C. Maldonado and Rense Nieuwenhuis.

This book - multi-disciplinary and comparative in design - shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed case studies of Sweden, Iceland, Scotland, and the UK. It covers aspects of well-being that include poverty, good quality jobs, the middle class, wealth, health, children's development and performance in school, and reflects on social justice.