What future? The long term implications of sole motherhood for economic wellbeing

Title: What future? The long term implications of sole motherhood for economic wellbeing
Creator: Loxton, Deborah
Relation: Just Policy , Issue 35, p. 39-44
Relation: http://www.vcoss.org.au/pubs/just-policy.htm
Publisher: Victorian Council of Social Service
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
Description: Sole mothers form o substantial proportion of the Australian population. In 2003, 20% of Australian families with children under 15 years of age were headed by a sole mother and around 27% of 18 year olds had spent a period of their childhood in a family headed by a sole mother (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS] 2003a; de Vaus & Gray 2003). Moreover, the ABS (2004a) hos predicted that the number of sole parent families will increase by between 30% and 66% from 1996 to 2021. Therefore, it is important to understand the economic situations of sole mother families, and to determine the potential long term impact of sole motherhood on economic wellbeing.
Subject: sole parent families; women's health; sole motherhood; economic impact
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26872
Identifier: uon:1176
Identifier: ISSN:1323-2266
Language: eng
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