Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … poverty and, as a result, little consensus on the best way to address poverty among these children. Explanations include both … poverty. Further, while the effects of family allowance spending are similar for children in both single mother and two parent …

mothers' economic well-being. Using 25-years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1990 to … affect economic outcomes, I show that previously married mothers face larger income penalties than those who were single when … highlight the importance of reducing gender inequalities in the labor market for improving single mothers' economic well-being. …

This essay focuses on the construction of the concept 'Mother' in poverty discourses. It addresses the role of … identified as constituting the cause as well as the effect of poverty. Of particular interest are those political and … professional discourses in which single Mother status is defined as one of the primary predictors of poverty. This association of …