Lone Parenthood

by John F. Ermisch

In 1989, one-parent families comprised seventeen percent of all families with dependent children, and their number has almost doubled in the past two decades. Almost all the information we have hitherto had about them comes from snapshots in cross-section surveys. This book analyzes for the first time the flows into and out of lone parenthood, using demographic and employment histories from a British national survey carried out in 1980. It studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521412439
• ISBN13: 9780521412438
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"