A Media Discourse Analysis of Lone Parents in the UK: Investigating the Stereotype

Migrant Status and Lone Motherhood – Risk Factors of Female Labour Force Participation in Switzerland

“…However, because of the low availability of public child care and the resulting family-work conflicts, a large portion of women in Switzerland work part time (Bühlmann et al 2012). Weak labour market attachment, poverty, and welfare dependency are major concerns in the sociopolitical debate about lone mothers (Salter 2017), as well as about migrants. Looking at the labour market situations of immigrant lone mothers can thus provide insights into the often precarious living conditions of mothers who are primary care-givers and income providers, and who may also face specific difficulties related to their immigrant status.…”

Service needs of young people affected by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): A systematic review of UK qualitative evidence

“…We identified no studies focusing on parental incarceration or parental separation and there is clearly a lack of robust research in this area. Arguably the inclusion of parental separation as an adversity – in a time of considerably greater family diversity – is outmoded ( Salter, 2018 ). Being from a single parent family does not necessarily constitute an adversity and in fact could be protective.…”

(De)legitimization of single mothers’ welfare rights: United States, Britain and Israel

“…Journalists debated the challenges of changing cultural habits in the black community, such as men with several 'babymothers' with whom they have children but whom they may not support, and questioned the stereotype of black single mothers as passive victims. Other journalists focused on the need for greater government spending on childcare to provide a pathway out of poverty (Salter, 2018). The negative images ascribed to these mothers were backed by positions that state support for birth should be discontinued, with an emphasis on conventional marriage instead.…”

“…First, they have a higher risk of poverty (Brady and Burroway, 2012; Jäntti and Gornik, 2009; Härkönen, 2018; Hogendoorn et al, 2020; Hübgen, 2018; Lewis and Hobson, 1997; Maldonado and Nieuwenhuis, 2014) that deepens the delegitimization directed at them in public discourse (Ajzenstadt, 2009; Herbst, 2013). Second, single mothers negatively label their parenting, perceiving themselves as not good enough, largely in terms of ‘new social risks’ of bringing their children into poverty and social perversion (Abramovitz, 2006; Ajzenstadt, 2009; Herbst, 2013; Salter, 2018), although this claim has not been corroborated in research (Dermott and Pomati, 2016). Third, they are less able to accumulate economic capital than two-parent families (Sierminska, 2018) in terms of both income from wages (Raz-Yurovich, 2013) and pension accumulation (Price et al, 2016), and are characterized by decreased rates of homeownership leading to persistent residential instability (Mikolai et al, 2019).…”