Female-Headed Families: Personal Fate Control and the Provider Role

Bould, Sally

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“…Rosenfeld and Rosenstein (1973) developed mapping to standard profiles of single-parent families based on the precipitating causes of single parenthood, degrees of parental absence, and their particular effects on family relationships . Consensus on the existence and expression of feelings of social isolation by single mothers is virtually unanimous (Blechman & Manning, 1976;Bould, 1977;Brandwein, Brown, & Fox, 1974;Burgess, 1970;Glasser & Navarre, 1965; Specific variables associated with social isolation that affect parent functioning have been found to include the stigmatizing effects of welfare (Bould, 1977); negative sanctions on single mothers and the poverty resulting from divorce (Bradwein et al, 1974); and the separate personal, family, and role adjustments often required of single parents (Burgess , 1970;Goode , 1960). Similar behavior has been observed in groups of economically deprived families (Besner, 1965), AFDC mothers (Glasser & Navarre, 1965), and British single parents (Ferri & Robinson, 1974;Schlesinger, 1977).…”

Section: Treatment Of Single-parent Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment

Lutzker¹

1998

Issues in Clinical Child Psychology

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A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual sh ipment. For further information please contact the pub lisher. LIbrary of Congress CatalogIng-In-PublIcatIon Data Handbook of ch Ild abuse research and treatment I ed Ited by John R. Lutzker . p . cm . --(Issues In clInIcal chIld ps ychology) Includes bIblIographIcal references and Index. 1. Ch I l d abuse--Psychologlca l aspects. 2 . ChIld abuse--PreventIon. 3 . AbusIve parents--Behavlor mod lf1cat lon. 4. Abused c h1 1dr e n--Re hab 1i t t a t t o n . I. L u t z k e r , .Jchn R., 1947-II . SerIes . HV6626.5 .H36 1997 362 .76'7--dc21 97-39967 CIP ISBN 978-1-4419-3278-5 ISBN 978-1-4757-2909-2 (eBook)

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Section: Treatment Of Single-parent Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment

Lutzker¹

1998

Issues in Clinical Child Psychology

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“…Fully 90 percent of all welfare mothers have worked at some time (Pearce, 1978). Research has demonstrated that working women who head households have a stronger sense of personal control over their fate than do women who rely on unreliable, unstable, or stigmatizing sources of income, such as welfare or child support (Bould, 1977).…”

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Strategies for Surviving Divorce: The Contradictions of Welfare

Grella

1988

Affilia

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This article uses data from interviews with 40 divorced women to examine the strategies they employed to negotiate public assistance. Divorced women on welfare, as do caseworkers, attempt to differentiate their status from other welfare recipients, rather than focus on their common dependence on the welfare state. They manipulate the system to their best advantage to lessen the state's control of their lives. Many consider welfare to be preferable to either marriage or work. The receipt of welfare by divorced women poses a tradeoff between needed economic assistance and its penalties and fails to establish them as economically self-sufficient heads of households.Feminists have long noted the parallel between marriage and welfare. The feminist adage that every woman is one man away from welfare expresses the notion that dependence on the state is but marriage writ large. In particular, feminists have focused on the economic problems of divorced women heads of households whose plight illustrates the family and work arrangements that assume women's dependence on men (see, for example, Arendell, 1986;Smart, 1984;Weitzman, 1985).Broader public interest has also been directed at the plight of divorced women. As the number of female-headed households mounts (it doubled from 1970 to 1981, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1982), no area of society is left untouched. Like the shifting of continental plates, the movement of these societal structures forces ruptures that expose the workings of the societal organization of gender. After divorce, women often fall into the crevices between these social structures, which have neither accommodated their increasing number nor fully accepted their existence.

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“…There is a general lack of conflict and decisions are made more easily and quickly (Brown, Fieldman, Fox & Kohen, 19761, provided resources are adequate. A single mother's sense of control over her life is related to the respectability, dependability, and amount of income available (Bould, 1977). Even when resources are scarce, women feel better able to regulate resources which are truly at their own disposal.…”

Section: A B L E 2 Selected Studies Of Adjustment and Self-esteemmentioning

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Female‐headed Families: Effects on Children and Clinical Implications*

Cashion

1982

J Marital Family Therapy

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The social psychological research pertaining to female‐headed families published between 1970–1980 is reviewed. The literature indicates that theoretically children do not need the presence of the same‐sex/opposite‐sex parents in the family in order to develop sex‐role behavior. Children in female‐headed families are likely to have good emotional adjustment, good self‐esteem except when they are stigmatized, intellectual development comparable to others in the same socioeconomic status, and rates of juvenile delinquency comparable to others in the same socioeconomic status. In light of these findings, suggestions are made for counseling women who head families.

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Female-Headed Families: Personal Fate Control and the Provider Role

Cited by 30 publications

References 13 publications

Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment

Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment

Strategies for Surviving Divorce: The Contradictions of Welfare

Female‐headed Families: Effects on Children and Clinical Implications*

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