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The New Uprooted: Single Mothers in Urban Life »

Authors: Elizabeth A. Mulroy
ISBN-13: 9780865690387, ISBN-10: 0865690383
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: July 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Elizabeth A. Mulroy

ELIZABETH A. MULROY is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she teaches social policy analysis and communities and organizations.

Book Synopsis

Explores the relationship between the single mother and her social and physical environments.

Booknews

Examines the pressures on single mothers in the modern era, highlighting factors such as failure of fathers to provide support, violence, limited employment, and affordable housing. Part I offers background on 30 years of demographic changes in the family and the workplace and discusses the housing crisis. Part II explores societal attitudes toward mothers and work, teen mothers, and domestic violence. Part III describes stages of family restabilization after divorce, and recommends policy changes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	List of Figures
	Foreword
1	Introduction	3
2	Thirty Years of Family and Workplace Change	19
3	Families and the Affordable Housing Crisis	41
4	Lost Dreams: Domestic Violence and Relationship Breakdown	65
5	The High Cost of Working	85
6	Teen Mothers in Urban Poverty	105
7	The New Uprooted: Housing and Divorce	123
8	Family Restructuring after Separation and Divorce	139
9	Family Futures in a Caring Society	155
	Bibliography	169
	Index	179