Single-Parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-Headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns

Chant, Sylvia

doi:10.4324/9781315258027-7

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“…3 Nevertheless, age continues to be an understudied element in the correlation between deprivation and female-headed households. Previous poverty research has primarily targeted populations of women that are of working or child-bearing age (Buvinic 1997;Chant 1997;Fuwa 2000;Moore 1996;Razavi 1999;Varley 1996). yet old age, regardless of gender, has been found to be a critical factor in the susceptibility of households to poverty.…”

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“…Specifically, Chant (1999Chant ( , 2003Chant ( , 2004, and González de la Rocha (2001aRocha ( , 2001b have argued that such conclusions are often lacking in empirical evidence and/or the correct methodology to consistently presume that female-headed households are the least disadvantaged in terms of money, resources, or that they comprise the largest percentage of the poor. 1 On the contrary, these scholars point to data that suggest that these households are as viable as those headed by men, or even better off in some cases 2 (Chant 1997(Chant , 1999González de la Rocha 2001a;Lloyd 1998; see also García and Rojas 2001). So, are female-headed households in Mexico the poorest of the poor, or not?…”

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Though much scholarly attention has been paid to the emergence of female-headed households in Latin America, there is debate over where to place these households within discussions of poverty and resource deprivation. Two issues complicate this debate: first, the lack of multi-resource models in quantitative analyses to fully assess types of resource accumulation, and second, the broad failure for analyses of female-headed households to differentiate between different kinds of female-heads of household. This research note employs the operationalization and regression analysis of four different types of resource capital to evaluate relative levels across age-differentiated female-heads of households. Specifically, resource holdings of female-heads ages 18-44, 45-59, and 60 and older are compared across five measures of monetary, physical (two measures), social, and human capital. Findings indicate areas of deprivation, but no consistent lack of resources in one age group. Using theoretical and methodological foundations derived from the independent scholarship of González de la Rocha, Moser, and Rakodi, the analysis and results of resource capital in this study are discussed through a lens of equal vulnerability, rather than a lens of equally effective survival strategies. introduction In the United States, discussions of economically vulnerable groups often begin with female-headed households. yet, in Latin America the research does not indicate the same obvious starting point. Although female-heads of households have consistently been viewed as an "at risk" group for falling into or remaining in poverty in the United States,

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