Mother-headed families and why they have increased /

Burns, Ailsa.

Mother-headed families and why they have increased / Ailsa Burns, Cath Scott. - Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1994. - xv, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and indexes.

Is Easy Divorce to Blame? -- The Contribution of Out-of-Wedlock Births to the Incidence of Mother-Headed Families -- Why Out-of-Wedlock Births Increase -- Ex-Nuptiality in Non-European Countries -- Widows -- Biosocial and Demographic Theories of Parenting -- Feminist and Decomplementary Theories of Parenting -- Final Conclusions. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 3.

080581440X (acid-free paper)

93034798


Single-parent family.
Women heads of households.

HQ759.915 / .B86 1994

306.85/6