We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation … health for all women but the association was not statistically significant for single mothers. Mental health inequalities …

-educated single mothers, 1990-2005. It also examines changing participation in cash welfare and the Food Stamp Program (FSP). Relative … to single childless women, there has been no increase in UI benefit receipt among single mothers entering a spell of … unemployment in the postreform period, even though single mothers have increased their relative rates of UI eligibility. Because of …