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Single mothers and their children: A new American Dilemma, by Irwin Garfinkel and Sara S. McLanahan. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1986, 220 pp. Price: $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper. Family and work: Bridging the Gap, edited by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Alice S. Ilchman, and John J. Sweeny. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing, 1986, 218 pp. Price: $29.95 cloth. The American family and the state, edited by Joseph R. Peden and Fred R. Glahe. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1986,488 pp. Price: $14.95 cloth, $4.95 paper
Author(s) -
Broadkin Evelyn Z.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of policy analysis and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.898
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1520-6688
pISSN - 0276-8739
DOI - 10.2307/3323843
Subject(s) - dilemma , political science , psychology , sociology , epistemology , philosophy
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1987-88. The proportion of children living in households headed by single women in more than one in five. There is concern (and some evidence) that children of single parents are less likely to be successful adults. The book discusses the trends in public debate about this problem. In particular, it examines the issue of providing public assistance to such families and whether doing so fosters long-term welfare dependency.