In Defense of Single-Parent Families /

In Defense of Single-Parent Families / / Nancy E. Dowd.

Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them. As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original boo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Dowd, Nancy E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1999]
©1999
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. MYTHS & REALITIES
  • CHAPTER 1. The Stories of Stigma: What We Say about Single-Parent Families
  • CHAPTER 2. The Realities: What We Know about Single-Parent Families
  • PART II. LAW & SINGLE PARENTS
  • CHAPTER 3. Divorced Single Parents
  • CHAPTER 4. Nonmarital Single- Parent Families
  • CHAPTER 5. Single Parents as Positive Role Models
  • PART III. LAW REFORM
  • CHAPTER 6. Policies for Single-Parent Families
  • CHAPTER 7. Legal Strategies
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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