families in different welfare states. These potential sources of income are central when analyzing the nature of support … offered by the welfare state to single parents. This article attempts to give answer to the following questions: 1. Is it the …

alleviating the poverty of lone mothers in Norway, this paper examines the hypothesis that one reason the health status of lone …

countries. This paper considers five sets of hypotheses that may explain this cross-national variability of child poverty. The … tentative conclusion from this analysis in 20 countries is that reducing child poverty, and in lone-parent families in …

U.S. women have higher poverty rates than women in other affluent nations. In this paper I attempt to explain this … disparity by examining the effect of single motherhood, employment, and social assistance on women's poverty. With cross … of their high poverty rates. Compared to their counterparts in other Western nations, U.S. women, mothers and single …

Radical employment, household structure and stability transformations have created new tensions on the welfare state … front, whose social programs were constructed in an era with a wholly different risk profile. Rowntree's poverty cycle …, western welfare states have found their safety nets straining under the burden of expanding number of working age families …

In this paper I assess the extent to which welfare states reduce poverty among single mothers and all mothers. I focus … on two different typologies of welfare states. One identifies the gendered assumptions underlying social policies, while … the other focuses on how welfare states and labor markets affect class inequality. Using data from the Luxembourg Income …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a …

differences, especially regarding the proportion of widows, divorcees, and never-married women experiencing poverty. This review … lower poverty rates for women aged 65 or over who are on their own. …

Although the poverty rates among solo mothers vary a lot between countries there is one common feature: solo mothers … perform worse in terms of financial resources compared to married or cohabiting mothers. Even in countries with low poverty …. It is interesting to ask the question why? Again referring to a cross national setting we see that poverty rates vary …