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Kissman, Kris; Allen, Jo Ann – 1993
More than one fourth of all families today are one-parent families, and almost 90 percent of those families are headed by women. This book focuses on assessment and intervention with one-parent families, particularly mother-headed families, based on gender-sensitive principles combined with other family-centered strategies to help accentuate the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Ethnicity, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Structure
Schuman, Howard; Hatchett, Shirley – 1974
The slogan "study the victimizers, not the victims," can too easily become an excuse for substituting the ideologies and preconceptions of white and black intellectuals for the often different reality revealed by empirical research. This monograph tries to present a modest but complex set of data gathered using attitude sample survey…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Black Attitudes, Cross Sectional Studies, Demography
Burns, Ailsa; Scott, Cath – 1994
Noting that the preceding two decades have seen a dramatic growth in the proportion of families that are headed by women, this book explores the causes and implications of this development. The book bring together information on the past and present prevalence of mother-headed families in different countries. It then considers the various…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Child Welfare, Comparative Analysis, Demography
Masnick, George; And Others – 1980
This Family Outlook Report provides a detailed analysis of trends in the nation's population, household composition, family structure, and women's working patterns from 1960 to 1990 and describes the implications of these trends for American society. The behavior of groups of individuals born in the same years were followed as they grew older.…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Cohort Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
Download full textRoss, Heather L.; Sawhill, Isabel V. – 1975
Single parent families, usually headed by women, are transitional in two important senses: they frequently represent a transitional stage between marriages; and they are a symptom of the transition from a "distributive" family structure, in which a man provides resources for financially dependent women and children, to a form characterized by less…
Descriptors: Black Family, Child Support, Family Financial Resources, Family (Sociological Unit)
Jewell, K. Sue – 1988
Neither conservative nor liberal social policy has offered substantial or sustained benefits for black families. Social policy determines the overall impact of social and economic conditions on society's members, especially economically disadvantaged families. Liberal policies, procedures, and assumptions underlying social and economic programs in…
Descriptors: Black Family, Black Mothers, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Characteristics
