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The Dissolution Of Core Values: Development Of Crime And Society In Postwar Scandinavia With An Emphasis On Norwegian Circumstances, Georg Fr. Rieber-Mohn
The Dissolution Of Core Values: Development Of Crime And Society In Postwar Scandinavia With An Emphasis On Norwegian Circumstances, Georg Fr. Rieber-Mohn
BYU Law Review
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On Whose Watch? The Silent Separation Of American Children From Their Fathers, Nancy S. Coney, Wade C. Mackey
On Whose Watch? The Silent Separation Of American Children From Their Fathers, Nancy S. Coney, Wade C. Mackey
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Within two generations, the primary reason that American children were deprived of a father shifted from a father's death to a woman's choice. That is, prior to the 1960s, the major cause of fatherlessness was the death of the father through illness or accident. After the 1960s, the children became deprived of fathers primarily because of women's decisions to petition for a divorce or to become a single parent mother. The path of the shift is examined, and the consequences writ small per child and writ large for the commonweal are examined.
When Do Single Mothers Work? An Analysis Of The 1990 Census Data, Marta Elliott, John F. Packham
When Do Single Mothers Work? An Analysis Of The 1990 Census Data, Marta Elliott, John F. Packham
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This study analyzes the relative effect of the amount of public assistance income received one year on the probability that a single mother is employed the following year compared to a variety of other determinants of employment status. The analysis is based on a national sample which was drawn from the Public Use Micro data 5 percent Sample (PUMS) of the 1990 U.S. Census. It consists of the 275,744female householders who were divorced, separated, widowed or never married, and living with their own children age 18 and under. Logistic regression was utilized to calculate the probability of being employed in …